Comments on: It’s all go around here http://feministmentalhealthuk.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/its-all-go-around-here/ Feminists write about mental health Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:00:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: v http://feministmentalhealthuk.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/its-all-go-around-here/#comment-134 v Mon, 05 May 2008 00:13:38 +0000 http://feministmentalhealthuk.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-134 i think at the least he'll raise some interesting ideas, and i'll get the opportunity to flex my radical-feminist-social-anarchist brain muscles turning over the experience of recieving psychoanalysis, and what it brings up. im trying to be positive! im always nervous about losing my benefits because if you dont have a physical and visually obvious disability, its fairly easy for people to assume there's nowt wrong but laziness. i think getting this treatment is almost a validation that yes, i do have issues. i know that isnt necessarily something i should trust or want to work with, but im so fed up of people assuming im just lazy or blagging it, when im not at all, that its nice to have someone acknowledge that no - actually - i have real problems functioning in this society. i dont think its me that is the wrong one, obviously im not full of love for male supremacist capitalism, but the validation that my problems are real enough to warrant this sort of support is comforting, some of the time anyway. thanks for the good thoughts people. x i think at the least he’ll raise some interesting ideas, and i’ll get the opportunity to flex my radical-feminist-social-anarchist brain muscles turning over the experience of recieving psychoanalysis, and what it brings up.

im trying to be positive! im always nervous about losing my benefits because if you dont have a physical and visually obvious disability, its fairly easy for people to assume there’s nowt wrong but laziness. i think getting this treatment is almost a validation that yes, i do have issues. i know that isnt necessarily something i should trust or want to work with, but im so fed up of people assuming im just lazy or blagging it, when im not at all, that its nice to have someone acknowledge that no - actually - i have real problems functioning in this society. i dont think its me that is the wrong one, obviously im not full of love for male supremacist capitalism, but the validation that my problems are real enough to warrant this sort of support is comforting, some of the time anyway.

thanks for the good thoughts people.
x

]]> By: starfish http://feministmentalhealthuk.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/its-all-go-around-here/#comment-129 starfish Sun, 04 May 2008 04:07:50 +0000 http://feministmentalhealthuk.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-129 I'm wishing for you to get what you need from this, v, whatever that proves to be, and (as suggested), luck! I’m wishing for you to get what you need from this, v, whatever that proves to be, and (as suggested), luck!

]]> By: shatterboxx http://feministmentalhealthuk.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/its-all-go-around-here/#comment-121 shatterboxx Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:41:05 +0000 http://feministmentalhealthuk.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-121 Well done for getting the treatment, at least you know it's the right thing to do even if you do have all the normal doubts (and trust me they are all normal). I know what it's like to worry that there'll be nothing left of yourself without the depression. It took a friend to say to me 'That's the depression talking, not you,' to realise that depression is something that happens, it's not part of my personality. In the same way that an asthmatic or diabetic does not define themself by their disease, so we should see mental health issues. Although, I know that's not as easy as it sounds... Ah geez, I kinda wish I could pay whatever I wanted for my therapy, but I can see how you feel uncomfortable about it... My advice is just put yourself first. This is your treatment and if it's been left up to you then you should conclude that your psychologist really doesn't mind if you pay £1 a session. If it'll help you get better, then that's all that matters. Well done for getting the treatment, at least you know it’s the right thing to do even if you do have all the normal doubts (and trust me they are all normal). I know what it’s like to worry that there’ll be nothing left of yourself without the depression. It took a friend to say to me ‘That’s the depression talking, not you,’ to realise that depression is something that happens, it’s not part of my personality. In the same way that an asthmatic or diabetic does not define themself by their disease, so we should see mental health issues. Although, I know that’s not as easy as it sounds…

Ah geez, I kinda wish I could pay whatever I wanted for my therapy, but I can see how you feel uncomfortable about it… My advice is just put yourself first. This is your treatment and if it’s been left up to you then you should conclude that your psychologist really doesn’t mind if you pay £1 a session. If it’ll help you get better, then that’s all that matters.

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