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Daily_Dose Doctor advised me to go back to work while I can't
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Hi, this is my first time seeking for help on a forum. Any advices is appreciated or it's good writing out to reduce my stress. I had an accident doing farm work almost 6 months ago, that cut off half of my finger’s nail and a bit finger bone. I will... View more

Hi, this is my first time seeking for help on a forum. Any advices is appreciated or it's good writing out to reduce my stress. I had an accident doing farm work almost 6 months ago, that cut off half of my finger’s nail and a bit finger bone. I will skip a very stressful story with a lot of tears with the treatment process here. I had been paid by Workcover until a week ago my doctor advised me to return to work. The thing is somehow I have been recovering so slowly, it's still an open wound which I think takes 2 more months to be fully healed. I raised my concern to my doctor that I don't think I can work while the wound is still open and could bleed anytime, but he insisted that I can return to work. I am still living in the farm that I worked for before the accident. With lots of bad things happened recently, I am so vulnerable that I cannot leave my friends here to move anywhere else alone. But obviously, I cannot work there with this open wound, it’s a potato farm, everything I touch there's dirt. My supervisor doesn't think I can work with this situation, my employer thinks it's fine. But eventually it's my finger, not anyone else, I think I'd better to find other job. I got infected and took 4 rounds of antibiotics for 40 days with it, so I don't want to take any risk. Workcover stopped paying me, so I am looking for jobs in hospitality which I think could be better for my condition than farm work. I have several offers but they all ask to wait until my wound is fully recovered. In the meantime, I watch Youtube videos about the jobs that I think I am capable to do, but I don't think I can do it. The wound is still sore if I carelessly touch something. I really don't know what to do next. I am here with working holiday visa and cannot go home yet.

LilyR Disheartening psychologist appointment
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Has anyone ever had a first appointment with a psychologist and left feeling more confused and anxious than when they went in? Before the appointment I was nervous but at the same time really hopeful as I wanted therapy to help. The psychologist wasn... View more

Has anyone ever had a first appointment with a psychologist and left feeling more confused and anxious than when they went in? Before the appointment I was nervous but at the same time really hopeful as I wanted therapy to help. The psychologist wasn’t rude as such but she was really abrupt. It’s hard to explain but the word abrupt is the only word I can think of to use. I felt like I was in a job interview and was being ‘grilled’. She kept asking me what event in my life caused me to have low self esteem/confidence. There is no such event in my case. She was finding it hard to fathom I think that there wasn’t a particular event. Surely someone can be anxious and have low confidence/self esteem without a particular reason or life changing event. I’m really disheartened. Has anything like this ever happened to anyone? I’m really frustrated and feel horrible.

MrsP21 withdrawals as a parent
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Hi all, first time poster. Looking for help and support. I have chronic pain and am coming off ALL my medications to try yet another one that could or couldn't work. Currently I'm taking 6 different meds and will be on only one when it's all over and... View more

Hi all, first time poster. Looking for help and support. I have chronic pain and am coming off ALL my medications to try yet another one that could or couldn't work. Currently I'm taking 6 different meds and will be on only one when it's all over and done with. I'm coming off with the help of a GP, and tapering off as slow as I can as far as I know of. My question is, how do you cope with withdrawals AND be a parent? My son is 18 months old and is in care 2 days a week. My husband works full time and we have support from our parents and daycare. Please send help, I'm only in week 1 out of at least 15.

Wanderlust123 Self Esteem Therapy
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Hi all, I'm looking for recommendations on therapists who help with self esteem, and hear any experiences people have had. Low self esteem is something I have struggled with for years, and I do not want to ignore it anymore. I'm exploring options if ... View more

Hi all, I'm looking for recommendations on therapists who help with self esteem, and hear any experiences people have had. Low self esteem is something I have struggled with for years, and I do not want to ignore it anymore. I'm exploring options if a therapist is the best treatment available, or perhaps books or workshops might be another option. I'm based in Adelaide, so if you've had a positive experience with a therapist or equivalent, then please recommend too. Please let me know if you have any advice on the matter. Thanks!

Kimuraaaa Looking for a good psych ward / mental health facility in the brisbane area for LGBT people
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hi everyone, I've been looking for a bit now, looked at stuff but I never see anything about LGBT+ or gender identities which kind of concerns me of how I'd be treated if I checked into one of them. Does anyone here have experience with any mental he... View more

hi everyone, I've been looking for a bit now, looked at stuff but I never see anything about LGBT+ or gender identities which kind of concerns me of how I'd be treated if I checked into one of them. Does anyone here have experience with any mental health facilities in this area that were good or yeah, thanks.

SleepingisWhenImHappy Annoyed at finding a letter from my psychiatrist saying I had Borderline Personally disorder , So I confronted him & he denied it
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I’m just wondering if anyone else has had the above ever happen too them ?? I was told that I had severe depression, which was no surprise really , after losing a dad and Mum I was close too. thrown in a few health issues and a difficult siblings too... View more

I’m just wondering if anyone else has had the above ever happen too them ?? I was told that I had severe depression, which was no surprise really , after losing a dad and Mum I was close too. thrown in a few health issues and a difficult siblings too deal with wrapping up Dads home and affairs , I had to play Fake ( something hard too do but a must to keep it as peaceful for my own wellness also) Knowing all along once everything was wrapped up I am down with them both , as they treated dad with disrespect some consider both my parents did a very good job in raising us , I don’t except them too treat me with compassion if they couldn’t even visit an 80 plus man who was nothing but kind. So in essence I have no family now , as I didn’t have children, . I moved in a year ago however I’m 20% unpacked due to depression and back surgery needed. I live in bed . I found a letter to my doctor saying I had BPD , ?? It was personally disorder, when I looked into it I was SO UPSET!! As reading about it , sounded like a tough gig , however a lot of my past kinda made sense with some things , anyway , I can’t find the paper it was written on. It ended up putting me into a total tail spin. I booked into see the psychiatrist and I must admit , I was a bit rude, As I told him about it and asked “ Why did you not just tell me ??? As I had been seeing him over 2 years and was trying to understand why I couldn’t bet depression, can’t we get a brain scan which he claims they don’t do which makes no sense to me , considering on Dr phil you see they have doctors that need the brain scans to SEE THE PROBLEM!! Anyway he looked thur his notes , but claimed he only had half I feel like I can’t trust him anymore, so I haven’t been back since the day I confronted him on it I also have come of my antidepressants , as they where making me sweat with other medicine pills back pain etc and menopause thrown in there. it’s helped with the endless sweating , I’m still down but no worse of than when on pills i can’t say the name of who I was seeing , however he does have some bad reviews, and at times I would leave thinking I’m not so sure I agree with his ideas I mean I’m down but I still can think common sense etc thanks for anyone reading this ! I’m living in bed , stuck ! Can anyone suggest anything or had a similar conversation about the same thing , as I’m left wondering now do I have BPD or not ?? appricate anyone s feedback thanks

glowbrain Support worker is a pandemic denier
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I am struggling with how to approach re-evaluating my established support worker, after latterly discovering that he denies that we are in a pandemic. I am hoping for some guidance. I get funding for a support worker to help push me out of my inertia... View more

I am struggling with how to approach re-evaluating my established support worker, after latterly discovering that he denies that we are in a pandemic. I am hoping for some guidance. I get funding for a support worker to help push me out of my inertia and isolation due to mental health issues. I have trouble communicating with people and engaging with them in general, so finding a support worker who was generally supportive and friendly was a win. He is mostly open minded person trained as a yoga instructor. However, the online yoga community is apparently over-represented in the social media bubble of Covid disinformation. When he declared that he had a medical exemption from wearing a face covering I took him at his word and let it slide. When I later mentioned my two Astra Zeneca vaccination doses, he began offering me disinformation-type claims - indicating that my taking on an untried experimental treatment pushed by a corrupt pharmaceutical industry is making me culpable for side effects that I might pass to him and others. All in response to a disease that is supposedly no worse than a cold, and not a real pandemic. (As opposed, to say, acknowledging that staying unvaccinated and potentially incubating more covid variants makes abstainers like him concretely responsible for keeping the wider population from ever reaching herd immunity. ) I started getting into a heated riposte trying to get him to see the unscientific nonsense and irrational fallacies I saw in his words. But I knew that was going to just erase any goodwill we had. I said that I needed to prepare an exercise we could work through together, to identify where he and I might be willing to adjust and compromise and where we each could not. I scheduled it for later this week. But I don't know that I have a way to do that that is not going to just fall over if it becomes clear we do not exist in the same consensus reality, and what counts to me as threatening risks to the community is just illusory propagandised fears to him. I dug up some old support group literature about communication skills and mediation, but I don't really know how to apply the ideas in them.

Rupes79 Cost of medication
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Does anyone else struggle with the cost of medication? I’ve just changed antidepressants and the cost has increased from $15 to $75 per script. I’m finding myself cutting them in halves sometimes to save money.

Does anyone else struggle with the cost of medication? I’ve just changed antidepressants and the cost has increased from $15 to $75 per script. I’m finding myself cutting them in halves sometimes to save money.

TheBigBlue Trust BROKEN
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I have been seeing my current psychologist for about 2 years now. We had a good relationship. She knows I struggle with opening up to people & this has been a topic of discussion between us for a long time. Earlier this week, I was really struggling,... View more

I have been seeing my current psychologist for about 2 years now. We had a good relationship. She knows I struggle with opening up to people & this has been a topic of discussion between us for a long time. Earlier this week, I was really struggling, to the point of ******** ideation, so I sent her text message explaining how I was feeling & that I thought someone should know. She did not reply, but today she has sent a text to my partner requesting my parents contact details. She has “threatened” to contact my parents previously & I asked her to not go down that path as 1 of my parents is involved in my childhood trauma & I don’t want them involved at all. I also told her that the thought of my parents knowing makes the situation worse as I would do anything to keep my issues private from them. i feel so upset & riddled with anxiety right now. I’m ok with her reaching out to my boyfriend & understand her reasons why, but using that threat of the parents makes me scared & annoyed. I even took my sister to a session one time. She could ask for my sisters contact details, why my parents???!!?! I’m a middle aged woman, I don’t see how my parents should be involved when I have previously asked them NOT to be. Anyway, feeling so scared & alone right now, I didn’t know where else to reach out