A safe place for anxiety sufferers to share.

lastexitlondon said:

PJ_Soul said

HughFreakingDillon said:

PJ_Soul said:

lastexitlondon said:

PJ_Soul said:

Meltdown99 said:

Counselling NHS...

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/counselling/

In 2 seconds I found out how you can access free therapy paid by your health service.

If you are relying on your GP for your mental health ... you'll never get better.  GP's are just that, general practitioners...therapist special in helping you sort out your problems.

You seem to be assuming that lastexitlondon is completely clueless and has never been to therapy, which is not the case.

Thank you because im getting a little annoyed here. 

Understandable - there is some serious condescension going on here.

my comments weren't directed at lastexit. he keeps talking about dementia, not anxiety. 

I wasn't talking about you at all!

Same . HFD has helped me understand a lot. Very constructively

good. I'm just paranoid lately as it seems several people have taken some of my posts the wrong way. 

PJ_Soul said:

Meltdown99 said:

Counselling NHS...

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/counselling/

In 2 seconds I found out how you can access free therapy paid by your health service.

If you are relying on your GP for your mental health ... you'll never get better.  GP's are just that, general practitioners...therapist special in helping you sort out your problems.

You seem to be assuming that lastexitlondon is completely clueless and has never been to therapy, which is not the case.

At some point you have to help yourself as well.  Coming to a bands website and constantly saying your not getting help/better is not going to change your situation.  Why keep going to your GP thinking you have dementia when he's saying you don't, yet he is convinced he has dementia.  If he doesn't trust what his dr is saying...why come here and complain. 

Meltdown99 said:

PJ_Soul said:

Meltdown99 said:

Counselling NHS...

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/counselling/

In 2 seconds I found out how you can access free therapy paid by your health service.

If you are relying on your GP for your mental health ... you'll never get better.  GP's are just that, general practitioners...therapist special in helping you sort out your problems.

You seem to be assuming that lastexitlondon is completely clueless and has never been to therapy, which is not the case.

At some point you have to help yourself as well.  Coming to a bands website and constantly saying your not getting help/better is not going to change your situation.  Why keep going to your GP thinking you have dementia when he's saying you don't, yet he is convinced he has dementia.  If he doesn't trust what his dr is saying...why come here and complain. 

we had another poster here that eventually got banned a while back who did what you are doing in a mental health thread. derailed it by basiclaly doing what you are doing. please stop. this is not helping. I have spoken to lastexit on these forums and in pm. he has been doing an immense amount of work trying to get better. 

I have been in his shoes, to an infinitely smaller degree. GP's and specialists who basically tell you that nothing is wrong. really? nothing is wrong when I'm doubled over in pain, unable to eat, sleep, function, etc? that's what he's getting. he's gotten so much help, in fact, that he is starting to get turned away. you simply have no idea what he's going through. 

I know you may think you are helping, but you are absolutely going about it the incorrect way. it is counterproductive to the idea of this thread. read the title FFS. 

Meltdown99 said:

lastexitlondon said:

Im not complaining. You clearly don't understand what health anxiety even is..i find some of the things you say really out of touch. Why does anybody visit these pages and start a thread about anything if this is the attitude
 You don't have to read or comment.
I am an intelligent adult human who has a story or journey like everyone else if i want to come here i will. I suggest you post your story in your thread . 
You seem very narrow minded and one dimensional. Thats good if it works for you
 But I've seen you post many places equally as single minded. Which is your choice but please don't insinuate or presume you know what i NEED or what helped you MUST help me.
  

Why do you not trust your dr.?  Listen, I had a serious medical alarm, which could signal cancer, I had to see a specialist to find out what was wrong, I asked my dr. point blank "do you think its cancer", he said no it's not ... I choose to have faith in him, I was proven right to have faith in him.  How old is your dr.?  A general practitioner is not where you seek mental health therapy.

My sister went to six different specialists who all said "it was nothing", and then the 7th doctor discovered the cancer - by that time it had reached her lymph nodes and she required surgeries, skin graphs, the works, and she almost lost her arm. If my sister had trusted any one of those first 6 and highly recommended doctors she'd be dead right now. I guess this is another example proving that your own medical experiences don't necessarily apply to those of others.
Again, lastexitlondon has been dealing with this for 20 years, and has absolutely not just left it to a GP. That said, sometimes going to the GP is the right option to choose during crisis moments, depending on the resources immediately available.