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My mental health is getting worse :(


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My mental health sometimes gets really bad, just out of the blue and for no particular reason. I can feel it getting worse, and I want to make sure I can keep it from plummeting to the bottom of mental health and keep myself fully, or at least mostly, operating. Does anyone have any tips? 

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9 hours ago, Emberfrost12 said:

My mental health sometimes gets really bad, just out of the blue and for no particular reason. I can feel it getting worse, and I want to make sure I can keep it from plummeting to the bottom of mental health and keep myself fully, or at least mostly, operating. Does anyone have any tips? 

Hey there,

Thanks for sharing this with us. I'm wondering, is your wellbeing getting to the point where you feel like you need support to manage?

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6 hours ago, Monsoon said:

Hey there,

Thanks for sharing this with us. I'm wondering, is your wellbeing getting to the point where you feel like you need support to manage?

No, not right now

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Okay, and on a scale of 1-10, with 1 = not bad at all and 10 = really bad, where would you place yourself? 

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13 hours ago, Emberfrost12 said:

Well, right now I'm a five or six, but slowly getting worse

Hey there,

Okay. Let's say you're a six now. I'm wondering, what would help you or what needs to change for you to go down to a five or a four? 

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3 hours ago, Monsoon said:

Hey there,

Okay. Let's say you're a six now. I'm wondering, what would help you or what needs to change for you to go down to a five or a four? 

I…don’t know 

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Hey there,

Thanks for sharing that. Why do you think you've gone up to a seven? Did something happen? 

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3 hours ago, Monsoon said:

Hey there,

Thanks for sharing that. Why do you think you've gone up to a seven? Did something happen? 

Not really…just, last march is when I started self-harming, so i guess i have that hovering over me?

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2 hours ago, Emberfrost12 said:

Not really…just, last march is when I started self-harming, so i guess i have that hovering over me?

Hey,

Can you tell me more about having the self-harm hovering over you? What does that feel like?

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5 minutes ago, Monsoon said:

Hey,

Can you tell me more about having the self-harm hovering over you? What does that feel like?

It’s kind of like I’ve had all this time to fix everything and I haven’t really succeeded in doing that. Also, every time i look at the date, i think something along the lines of ‘you know what happened this time last year? You were looking at that same date, with your arms stinging under the table’ and especially because I'm so stressed right now, there’s a certain amount of shame and fear of relapsing. I also keep about what could’ve happened last year if i hadn’t ben caught. 

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17 hours ago, Emberfrost12 said:

It’s kind of like I’ve had all this time to fix everything and I haven’t really succeeded in doing that. Also, every time i look at the date, i think something along the lines of ‘you know what happened this time last year? You were looking at that same date, with your arms stinging under the table’ and especially because I'm so stressed right now, there’s a certain amount of shame and fear of relapsing. I also keep about what could’ve happened last year if i hadn’t ben caught. 

Hey there,

Yeah, I do definitely see that sense of shame in what you're saying. It sounds like you're being really critical of yourself, when really, you were struggling and were looking for a way to cope. I'm wondering, if a friend of yours had been self-harming, how would you respond to them? Would you say kind things? 

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3 hours ago, Monsoon said:

Hey there,

Yeah, I do definitely see that sense of shame in what you're saying. It sounds like you're being really critical of yourself, when really, you were struggling and were looking for a way to cope. I'm wondering, if a friend of yours had been self-harming, how would you respond to them? Would you say kind things? 

My friends have revealed that they have been through similar things and I do tell them how awesome they are. 

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I guess it’s hard not to be tough on myself when people are flipping joking about it without realizing I’m trying to deal with something

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2 hours ago, Emberfrost12 said:

I guess it’s hard not to be tough on myself when people are flipping joking about it without realizing I’m trying to deal with something

Hey there,

Yeah, I think it might be helpful for you to try being kind to yourself over this. Can you give me an example of one of the negative things you say to yourself?

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4 hours ago, Monsoon said:

Hey there,

Yeah, I think it might be helpful for you to try being kind to yourself over this. Can you give me an example of one of the negative things you say to yourself?

Often it's things along the lines of  'Why do you even think about these things? No one else cares. Most people think it's funny. Stop being weak'

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Oop my post before this one is hidden still.

I kind of gave in last night…i feel even worse about this because now I have five (very small and shallow) new cuts. I’m thinking even lower about myself now.

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On 4/2/2022 at 1:38 AM, Emberfrost12 said:

Often it's things along the lines of  'Why do you even think about these things? No one else cares. Most people think it's funny. Stop being weak'

Hey,

Yeah, it sounds like you're being pretty tough on yourself, but I'm wondering, does it have to be that way? What could be a nice version of that? 

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4 hours ago, Monsoon said:

Hey,

Yeah, it sounds like you're being pretty tough on yourself, but I'm wondering, does it have to be that way? What could be a nice version of that? 

I..don’t really know…

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7 hours ago, Emberfrost12 said:

I..don’t really know…

Hey,

That's okay. I'm wondering, what could the opposite of 'No one else cares' and 'Stop being weak'?

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3 minutes ago, Monsoon said:

Hey,

That's okay. I'm wondering, what could the opposite of 'No one else cares' and 'Stop being weak'?

Well, it would probably be ‘some people care’ and  ‘stay strong’

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18 hours ago, Emberfrost12 said:

Well, it would probably be ‘some people care’ and  ‘stay strong’

Hey,

Yeah, exactly. Can I give you a task to do that you might find helpful? 

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20 hours ago, Emberfrost12 said:

Sure

For the next week or so, every time you have a negative thought or notice that you're being hard on yourself, can you write it down and then let me know what they are? 

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