Originally Posted by yellowbastard
Good idea. I need to research to see if that's available. I would rather not have therapy sessions with a shrink because I absolutely hate talking to someone about my problems. Even when I'm upset for some reason, I just like to be alone and away from other people. Medication may be my only help.
This is a bad way to look at it. I'd call this "the easy solution to a complex problem."
You want to help yourself, right? See a therapist and maybe take some low dose of medication to help you for a few months. Therapy alone is more helpful than medications alone. Medications alone are a band-aid approach.
You won't be the first person they have had that doesn't want to talk about themself. It's uncomfortable, it's kind of scary, but in the end you'll end up with a better feeling than the "blah" medication feeling of....not feeling. It's not so much not feeling, it's so much not caring. At least that's how I felt, and I didn't like that at all. But even with therapy you cannot expect to go in and in one session go "OH I AM READY TO JUMP HEAD FIRST." No, you're going to have to force yourself into uncomfortable situations to find out that they're never as bad as you think. It takes a lot of effort outside of therapy. Avoidance is a horrible cycle. Obviously your current duck and hide approach to it isn't working, so what makes you think that doing the same about getting help is?
Also, this isn't a one in 1,000 people thing. It's very common. Or just commonly diagnosed. I'm sure that somebody at one of these gathering-type situations is just as nervous as you. And not too many people are comfortable with therapist-visits. You just have to do it. :happysad: There's no other simple answer I can give you.