I’ve had a problem for a while with my mental health. Randomly getting really depressed (generally in the evening and I’m sure its not random, but I’ve no idea why), dealing with stress in pretty bad ways (cutting myself and isolating myself from others generally), and suicidal thoughts occasionally.
I want to go to therapy, but I’m really worried about it. My family can’t know about any of it (I’m 18+ so hopefully that’s not as issue anyway), and I’m really worried about being put in a psyche ward because of the self harm and suicidal thoughts. I really really don’t want that to happen. What should I do?
Edit: Should’ve mentioned, I’m in the UK, probably moving to Ireland in August though.
I’m from germany and I haven’t managed to get to therapy myself yet but from what I’ve read and heard from friends, just try to make an appointment with any therapist and don’t stress on them being the right one. It has to match and they’ll know it and will get you to a therapist that’ll match for you.
I also get this randomly being depressed in the evenings. I’ve noticed that for me it is a mix of mostly being alone and the day ending, I just have a very hard time dealing with things ending.
I’ve started to journal and mostly in the evenings and it really helped me. Of course it’s no substitution for therapy but it get’s me through the evening and sleeping and out of bed in the morning.