I can attest to that, Sakura. I went through loads of different counsellors and psychologists before I even got a chance to speak to a psychiatrist here. And then I had to wait longer for therapy, etc.

That was years ago though, but it's one of the reasons why I'm not keen to start the process again and get the help I need now.

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Either I replied to this and it was deleted by administration, or I have lost my mind. Perhaps admin can advise before I seek treatment.

I've checked the admin log and as far as I can see no administrative changes have been made to this thread since its creation - which means I guess it's time for you to break out the happy pills.

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While that may not be a perfect system either, it's better to err on the side of caution because getting onto psych meds is a slippery slope that some people can't get off of. Better to be selective in who gets them than to hand them out to everyone who has a problem, and some who don't, like we do in the US.



Exactly that. I really don't want to go into my rant but there is plenty of info on it at your Googling fingertips.

I wonder if mental health issues are spread evenly across the board or if some personality types are more likely to suffer them than others...

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there's probably enough mental disorders to supply all 16 types evenly, at least when averaged over everyone through all of time. maybe different ages or eras encourage some types to go more crazy than others. i feel the introverted and feeling are more vulnerable in this age. the rise of social everything shuns solitude. the frantic pace of capitalistic suburbia renders feelings either obsolete or cliched luxury.

myself: add (never hyper); light/casual insomnia; have recently succumbed to panic attacks when the weight of infinity becomes flagrant; fanboy of schizophrenia because of a short story called Lenz (by Buchner) which awoke some latent desire to see the world entirely different from anyone, ever, including myself.

personally, im not fond of the whole negative connotation associated with mental 'illness' or 'disorders'. id rather not my divergence from accepted norms be an excuse or crutch. sadness makes me stronger, light insanity keeps the world in dance.

but its the balance thats the hardest. finding that balance, that spiritual center of gravity, is maddening. like juggling air at one moment and death at the next.

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins