Help Seeking

[SouthsNo1]

A personal experience today reminded me how brave we are to seek help and be honest with ourselves and others about what we are experiencing. I must say that it does feel really good to know that the first step might be hardes and that I'm taking control of my life, my thoughts and feelings.

Happy Monday everyone and hope you all had a nice weekend.

[ArraDreaming]

I agree and this year I took that brave step too, and the hardest part was showing up but I am so glad I did 

[SouthsNo1]

Agree. As Woody Allen said '80% of life is just showing up'. 

[ArraDreaming]

Just gotta be brave mate 

I put it off for a very long time!! And you know all I had to do was show up, I was scared and worried I even had my kids in tow and I will never forget how welcoming they made us all feel and helped me from the second I showed up 

How was your experience? Feel supported? 

[AvacadoRising_]

Yes indeed, half the battle is just showing up. I did this about three years ago and went to see a psychologist and surprisingly we connected really well even in the first 15 minutes. This is very uncharacteristic for me. However, she was overbooked and probably overworked and changed to the payment method. Suddenly, I couldn’t afford her any more. I went back to my general practitioner today to get a new referral. But now I have to find a new psychologist. This means going through the on boarding process all over again. So choosing the right one is the key

[SouthsNo1]

Thanks for asking. It was a new GP, mine at the AMS was booked out for a decent wait so went elsewhere. The experience was not the best, it was hard to understand due to language barriers, i was persuasive and got some help, although also have to wait similar to @AvacadoRising_  so now im thinking a digital option would be very appropriate for me at this time. It does take a health system to help people I say, not just a single health provider. 

Im glad a have a good family and have sport to look forward to, yep that's right i signed back up on the weekend and played footy. 

[ArraDreaming]

Which footy we talking?

[SouthsNo1]

Rugby League

[ArraDreaming]

I rate that, my son wants to play rugby but not a lot of it around here 

I play local afl footy

[Till23]

Hi @SouthsNo1 are you playing for one of the rabbitohs feeder clubs?