I got discharged from mental health services in January and they put me on a waiting list for therapy which I won’t be able to get until at least December. Feel like I’ve got no help or support. Phone lines as useless as a teapot made out of chocolate.
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Are you still on medication?
Maybe you could journal in the meantime,
A lot of times I’ve found journaling more beneficial than therapy.
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Yes still on an SSRI and taking the highest dose. I’ve been journaling since March and write in it every day. I’m trying to be more creative with it though.
Maybe you could get a guided journal?
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Yeah! Get more creative with your journal!
Throw in a love story…a car chase…and some gratuitous use of midgets, to spice things up! 
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How are you now? Did your symptoms improve or change?
I think the guided journals are a good idea but most of them look quite cringy and seem to make fun of mental illnesses idk :\ But I will still consider getting one like the one you suggested as it asks basically what a therapist would ask. Plus I could take it with me to therapy I guess?
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I am doing okay, I don’t think I am psychotic to be honest. However, I struggle daily with dissociation, intrusive thoughts and low mood. The intrusive thoughts aren’t voices but they talk to me and put me down sometimes.
How are you doing?
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I agree with you, @GoldenRex.
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Sometimes therapy with a real person can get on the wrong track. I’m trying to steer my therapist back to center again after some stupid stuff got talked about. I’m tired of her and just want to live my life.
I think a guided journal is a great idea.
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It was by journaling everyday that I got through the grief associated with the death of my son. I wrote to my son as if I were talking to him in person. That helped me enormously. I kept up that journal for about one and a half years. That’s how I healed.
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I’m 57 and Ive had paranoid schizophrenia for 38 years.
The mental health field has changed in many ways apparently over the course of time I’ve been sick. When I first got sick around 1980, the psychiatrists and my parents got me into group homes and hospitals rapidly. I also found psychiatrists relatively easy, and therapists. When I found psychiatrists and therapists I saw them almost immediately after finding them.
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I’m doing ‘fine’ thank you, what about your eating?
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My eating is probably the least disordered part of my life now, I eat proper meals and have snacks if I want them, plus I’ve taken up running and cycling which makes me feel less guilty if I have a day where I eat more than usual.
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In my country, the government have cut funding for mental health services drastically, there are hardly any beds in psychiatric hospitals now. This means many people who need to be inpatient are left at home unsafe and left waiting months for treatment.
Which country are you from?
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She is from the UK if I remember right.
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In my country they cut mental health funding too. It’s harsh.
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yes damn corruption and stupid politicians, they stole everything…
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They stole everything that’s why we are in the middle of financial crisis for many years now. As you are there in Italy too. On the brink of bankruptcy.
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