Current Events > MY mental counsillor suggested me to meet a doctor for eventual medication

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and whatever it's called, doctors notice thing that you have to be absent from work and such cuz you are sick. Or partwise absent.

I honestly don't want medication, but maybe I need to.
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I literally cannot figure out wtf you just said
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Coffeebeanz posted...

I literally cannot figure out wtf you just said

I don't know any of the translations.

Google says medical certification for "sjukintyg", but I feel it's not what I mean.

Same with "kurator" = curator, it's not at all what I mean, when she is a counselor kinda person.
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Well then


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Honestly you are such an asshole, you should know mental stuff is hard since you complain about it all the time, Don't post if you just gonna be an asshole
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FF_Redux posted...

Honestly you are such an asshole, you should know mental stuff is hard since you complain about it all the time, Don't post if you just gonna be an asshole

Come on man, we're friends. You know I've been supporting your struggles. I'm just trying to cheer you up.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

FF_Redux posted...

Honestly you are such an asshole, you should know mental stuff is hard since you complain about it all the time, Don't post if you just gonna be an asshole

Come on man, we're friends. You know I've been supporting your struggles. I'm just trying to cheer you up.

I'm sorry, but that pic wasn't cheering up or funny, and I'm not in a state of mood to interpret things like that as funny.
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Honestly, you strike me as the kind of person that would do well with cognitive behavioral therapy.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Honestly, you strike me as the kind of person that would do well with cognitive behavioral therapy.

That's what the counselor is working with me. But it's hard. Especially when I've fought my own battles without anyone's help for all my years, I've built bad thoughts, feelings and behaviors over the years that feel impossible to change now.
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The thing about depression, especially in intelligent people like yourself, is that we attempt to justify or rationalize it, when in reality we often rely on faulty assumptions about ourselves, the world, and our ability to positively impact it.

It's this irrational thinking that results in a self-perpetuating depressive cycle. Depression makes you feel like a failure; feeling like a failure reduces your capacity for rational thought, irrational thinking leads to reinforced depression.

I think you would do well with a CBT specialist. Medicine is not the answer for you. Also, never forget to step back and try to look at your life objectively. If you saw a newly graduated medical professional in good physical shape and healthy, would you be disappointed in that person? Don't sell yourself short, and don't let imposter syndrome take hold.
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if TC didn't like that picture i did :(.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

The thing about depression, especially in intelligent people like yourself, is that we attempt to justify or rationalize it, when in reality we often rely on faulty assumptions about ourselves, the world, and our ability to positively impact it.

It's this irrational thinking that results in a self-perpetuating depressive cycle. Depression makes you feel like a failure; feeling like a failure reduces your capacity for rational thought, irrational thinking leads to reinforced depression.

I think you would do well with a CBT specialist. Medicine is not the answer for you. Also, never forget to step back and try to look at your life objectively. If you saw a newly graduated medical professional in good physical shape and healthy, would you be disappointed in that person? Don't sell yourself short, and don't let imposter syndrome take hold.

This is me yeah. And failure for me is the worst thing ever. And I know all this, but it doesn't matter because I have these records stuck playing shitty thoughts to me that I'm forced to believe in. It's so odd to be able to understand these things, but still having it effect me, I thought it would just be going into a dark place but being "dumb" about it.

I really don't want to do medicine, but maybe I could just try it. I dunno. Right now I don't have the energy to do those cbt stuff she is talking about.
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