No help available

[interloper]

I live in a country town in Victoria, so options are automatically limited.

I have seen 3 GPs, 2 psychologists, 1 counsellor, 1 mental health care nurse, tried meds, etc.

I am at my wits end. Firstly nothing.... nothing, relieves my symptoms.

The first psych gave me the "google-list" of self-help (exercise, diet, music, gratitude lists, hobbies, etc) and that I was being dismissive, even though I had been doing all that stuff. Then I saw the counsellor, who straight up told me he couldn't help. My current psych is making no headroad with me at all and said so herself that she was running out of ideas.

My GP suggested trying meds again, which I was reluctant about. I keep hearing you need to try different medication, so I made myself open to the idea. A liver function test showed issues (despite not being a heavy drinker, taking nothing else, and living a clean life), so he won't prescribe one type of meds and says another type won't help me. He is focussed on the next option being a psychiatrist two hours away. I did some research, and saw a different GP to get a referral to a visiting psychiatrist (again, not keen, but I'm trying to stay open minded). New GP said that psychologist was rubbish, meds are rubbish, and to "try being more positive" and had I "heard about homeopathy".

I am done with this. It is plastered everywhere that help is available, but my experience over the last couple of years says that unless you are a bored housewife or have a lust for material things and need to come to terms with this stuff then it goes in the "too hard" basket. The basket where I live. There is no real help available. I've spoken with phone counsellors here and on LifeLine, and they are in a difficult position and ultimately cannot do anything. Ultimately, I am convinced that there is no help available.

If you've made it this far, thanks. If you've been in a similar situation and found a way to access meaningful help please let me know what you did, because I am ready to give up.

[Kazzl]

OK, well I guess I've kinda said what's central to me. But that's not what this is for, apologies if I got carried away in my head. 😀

I think Biscuit has raised a good point though ... in essence his post has questioned the notion that there are things central to our existence. Are there? And who says so? And even if there are, are they the same things central to everyone's existence or do we each have our own? How can a fundamental premise be truly fundamental if different people, cultures, whatever, disagree on what it is?

Anyways, my responses to some of your questions:

Why are we here? Because we are. No one is ever going to have a globally definitive answer to that - certainly not while opinions range from an explosion in space to a spirit it in the sky.

What is the point of doing x, y or z? What is the point of not doing x, y, or z? Alternatively, because we can.

And so on. You say why, I say why not. None of us will ever find a universal truth or meaning. But we can make our lives meaningful if we try.

I agree with Biscuit too about putting your ability for enquiry to use. Maybe less of why things occur and more of how? Perhaps the path to meaning is through studying the incredible thing in our head that enables us to think and wonder. Do read the neuroplasticity book, I think you might like it.

Cheers to both

Kaz