i feel like my social anxiety is keeping me from getting any kind of help
i guess this is a vent more than anything because i dont really have anyone else to talk to. i know my only solution is to work on it on my own until i feel comfortable seeking help, but the experience was still rrally upsetting.
so i went to a health center today to try to work out some kind of mental heath treatment idk what the right word would be. and i cant really talk to strangers so getting there in the first place was a major struggle. I fill out the little survey and eventually talk to a lady who asked me to elaborate a little bit on some of the stuff.
the problem is shes also a stranger and that made me start crying immediately after we started talking. and when im freaked out like that i feel like i need my responses to be as short and noncommital as possible, mostly just "i dont know" and "i guess", stuff like that. so she asked me to go into detail on circumstances and such and i said i wasnt really sure, asked how long its been going on and i said idk, asked if i was hoping to seek therapy and i again said i didnt know. I felt really bad because i vould tell she was getting a little frustrated having to ask me to repeat myself when she couldnt hear me and that i started crying when she was just asking routine questions. I had things i wanted to talk about but i just cant get the words out when im panicking like that.
and i guess bc of my avoidant answers she told me that unless i had specific concerns about gad or depression then she didnt have anything that could help me. i told my mom that when i got back home and she was really pissed saying there was clearly some way to help because i obviously had some kind of issue and that made me feel worse because its not like the woman did it on purpose it was because i couldnt answers her questions directly and accurately.
again. I know all i need to do is stop moping over it and work by myself until i feel like im at a point where i would be able to talk to someone about specifics/look into therapy/medication or something but the whole experience just has me really sad and i wanted to talk about it and well i dont really have anywhere else to say this or anyone to say it to. its just really upsetting because it took me forever to work up the courage to go in the first place and nothing came of it and its really hard to do this by myself but im the only person who can do anything about it :-/
@apricottree
Sounds that the whole process is a super hard time for you. It is very difficult to face all these and courage to take action. I believe it takes time and energy. Please don't be so hard on yourself. It is frustrated that doesn't work out this time. I have faith for you that you can make it one day. Wish you feel better soon.