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coldplay101
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Hi this is my first time researching depression and seeking any sort of help. Lately I’ve been the most sad I’ve ever been in my life. I struggle a lot with expressing my feelings to friends and especially family. Therefore making it impossible to share how sad I truely am. My whole life I’ve felt sad at some level but lately it’s been the worst ever as I’ve lost alot of money and I feel like life is a dead end right now. I don’t want to dump my problems on my friends but I can’t afford to see anyone for help. I’m scared that if I do go out of my way to get professional help my family will judge me. I also cry the second I talk about anything that upsets which makes it impossible to get the words out. How do I fight this? 

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geoff
Champion Alumni
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Hello Coldplay, it's not easy expressing how you feel because you can never be sure family or friends will take you seriously, and that's why we tend to pretend that everything is OK, when in fact it's not.

If you have lost a lot of money then people may only criticise you, but this isn't what you want, you people to try and understand why, as this isn't a situation where someone is better than someone else, when depression is involved it incorporates many issues.

No one needs to know when you see a psychologist because your doctor can give you a mental health plan, which entitles you to 20 Medicare paid sessions to visit a psych, so you won't be out of pocket.

Don't worry if you tend to cry, because I'm sure most of us have done this and I certainly have many times, so a way to help you is to write down, in point form, rather than an essay, what are your major problems, then the psych can then read what you've written down and then approach various topics at will and do it it slowly depending on how you are coping.

Geoff.

Life Member.