Anxiety about getting help with my anxiety?

Question

I've decided I probably should get help with my anxiety and depression. I can go to my university's mental health clinic for free, but I'm having anxiety about even making the appointment.

Do I just call and say I need an appoitnment with a therapist?
What are they going to ask me? What will the appointment be like? I dont think I'll even be able to talk about it without crying and having an anxiety attack then.


I honestly don't feel like talking about it is actually going to help at all.

Answer 1

Once you get over that first bump of making the appointment all else will fall into place. Just call and tell the receptionist you need to make an appointment, at mental health clinics they usually aren't to nosy. And if by chance they ask you why just say it's personal and you'll speak to the doctor about it.
The doctor is going to ask you some basic questions to help figure out a plan of action. You'll need to tell him or her what causes your anxiety and what makes it better. I take zoloft for depression(works quite well) and xanax for anxiety(it's a great medicine but causes dependancy).

Answer 2

Relax. What was your life like 50 years ago? That is what it will be like again when you die. No anxiety, no worries, no consciousness. Even my Christian girlfriend knows that, she is 49 and not afraid to die. What is it with modern 15-18year olds? They are either obnoxiously sure they know everything or they are so full of anxiety they can hardly get out of bed. My,(unknown) "god", get over it! I'm 70 now, when I was 15, we were too busy trying to pass algebra and get laid to worry about this kind of crap. In those days, 15-year olds were immortal, at least we thought we were. And, yes, we did know ALMOST everything, but parents were better at reminding us that we didn''t back then. Blessings on your Journey!

Answer 3

What you do is first make the phone call and say you need to speak to a therapist. If they ask, say you are having problems dealing with every day life.

Then write down what you would like to say. When you go to the appointment, just hand your written words to the therapist. You can even copy what you've just posted, which is very good in explaining how you feel, and hand it to the therapist. He or she will take it from there. You will be helped.

Answer 4

Hey girl ive had anxiety issues from the age of 5!!!! I came from a extremly abusive family .
I am much better now how i dealt with anxiety now is anything that your afraid of just do it cuz then there will be nothing
Anxiety can affect your whole existince and will keep on limiting you till you stand up and fight it cant get any worse then it is. See a therapist cause it might be linked to something mine is to abuse. I recomend asking about ativan.
Its the best and a 30 day supply is 25.00 please email for any questions I can help [e-mail]

Answer 5

Check out the "trans4mind" site. It's like this, they give you information. It's information everyone needs to know. If we dont like the teacher/counseler or aren't learning anything, we might could get another counselor/tutor, with great difficulty, or go to a community clinic for a slidding scale, $20 a month for weekly private lessons. It's all good, don't worry, that's the problem. Everything we think is motivated by fear or love. We can pick what we want to think about by getting outside the video and realizing we are the awareness watching the show, we have thoughts we are not those thoughts, but the "I' is the awareness of them. Likewise we are not our emotions, but an awareness of them and we, the awareness, have the remote. Click the channel. All that worry we think is us and negative is actually neutral energy that goes where we put our thoughts. Being outside the picture, even outside what we call 'reality' is to see the forest for the trees and we can see where to add to our reality and where to take away. We are seeing the real reality, unemotionally, and can look at even deeper emotions without blanching or flinching. That's the scientific viewpoint.
A simple aid is to switch judmental words for descriptive ones as they are more accurate. With the finger of emotions on the scale, we can't measure reality accurately. Simple enough?
I got off medication in about a year as I changed my way of thinking. The meds and I reprogram the mind, the neural connections. We all have to maintain our sanity by looking to the good and not to the bad. Looking to the bad is thinking and living backwards like evil is to live backwards. Forward doesn't exist, either, only now. Bringing bad forward from the past and bringing bad back from the imagined future into the present, ruins the now and the future, if we keep doing that.This is why science likes to say there is no time, there is only now and the next now and now is already gone before we can say it. College is a perfect place to fear the future, but by taking it one microsecond at a time it's manageable. Too big a chunk all at once and it can get indigestable. Don't gulp your food. We handle it one second at a time and it's an adventure. We can make any rough plan we want, we can even plan it out in great detail, but we have to be adaptable for the twists it takes to get to our goals, left, right, up, down. Having been given everything we don't learn thankfulness or how to deal with life. It's almost as if by imagining fear in our future we are planing for fear in our future. It's planning in reverse, not for good but for bad, judging everything as bad or hard before we get there. The grass is greener in the other pasture, becomed the grass is browner in the future. lol Actually we are thinking the grass is greener in other people's pasture and not appreciating the wonder and love in us, thankfullness. If we don't go within, we go without. The process will leave you master of your fate and captain of you ship and with emotional maturity. Most of us are only two or three emotionally. You'll be way ahead of the crowd, ready to help them find their way. You'll be the woman.

Answer 6

yea that's all you do i had trouble with it to. be prepared the will ask you why. they dont want to get personal they just want to know if you are suicidal. i just said i was having trouble sleeping because that was as personal as i wanted to get with a receptionist. it was hard for me but pushing yourself to make the call is a big step.

GOOD LUCK

Answer 7

well...i have found a way which helps me minimize anxiety attacks.... "worrying will not add a moment to your life" so just stop worrying and enjoy life...before you regret it.
Just think of that...when ever you worry about things....becausee one day you will realise how wonderfull life is if depression/anxiety is not part of your life

Answer 8

get some xanax and rail a bar after that any anxiety you had will be gone