jenniLOLOL
Azeria Espiritua
I believe everyone needs a mental therapy ones in a while, don't be ashamed. Actually I attend to therapy every week, and now I'm feeling a lot better. I used to have an anxiety disorder that was focalized in a phobia and also I don't like to hang out with friends, I'm still working on that.
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If you need to talk to someone... well, maybe I could help, who knows? ^^ I'm a good listener.
How do you propose that to your parents though.. I'm probably old enough to go on my own, but I can't pay for something like that. It scares me to death that if I was to ask my father, he would blame himself. That makes me nervous. But I know that I need to talk to someone, I just don't really have much wrong on the surface so I don't want to feel like therapy is a waste. But I know that inside me there could be something wrong.
This is just way too much for me. After reading that NAMI website, I kind of have a good sense of...things...
Education, patience, and kindness is the best way to let family and friends understand how you are. For example, if you are suspicious that you have Generalized Anxiety Disorder, learn about it as much as possible and present the information to your parents in a factual and educational form. Don't leave out any scientific/medical details if you know they are unfamiliar with the topic. You would want to explain it in such a way that tells them this is how you are either from birth, the environment or both, and it is not inherently their fault. The more they understand it on a deeper level, the easier it will be to accept. However, depending on how their mindsets are, you may have to be fairly or extremely patient. But if you know they care about you, they will come around as long as you don't become too frustrated with their lack of understanding. Everyone's parents grew up in a completely different generation and under completely different circumstances (regional, environmental, mental, etc). Some parents are more current with their mindsets in this generation. Then there are parents that are not current but can be educated. And then there are parents that will likely not change their ways - hopeless, to put it simply. How you know your parents are would determine how you present this to them.
However, if you can't figure out what you may be dealing with in your mind but can feel that something may be wrong, the same would apply here too. You may have to do a lot of self-reflecting in order to figure out what to say. And you may have to tell your parents specifically why you want to see a therapist - that is, tell them what has happened to you or around you and why you don't want to open up to them about it more. It happens often that people seek therapy because they need an unbiased person outside of the entire situation to help them. Because your parents are so close to you, they have biases that a therapist wouldn't.
Whatever you end up doing, good luck with it! I wish the best for you.
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