Mental Health Thread • Page 486

Yep, been there as well. Still get there occasionally, but my wife and I are much better at recognizing when I need to take a breather from whatever we're doing and give my brain a break to calm down.

 

This is a little too dystopian don’t you think? Sorry health insurance in this country is a travesty, here’s a bot that doesn’t even know what it’s like to have an experience to talk to

 

idk... might be better than just sending someone off to read psychology today or a book on cbt or just toss them to the wolves.

 

newborn sucks but infant I think is fun. Yeah there’s terrible parts to it but at least they are starting to get a personality and laugh and play with and look at things. That first two months where they’re basically a lump that cries and pukes and shits sucks lol

 

yeah the first couple of months were tough. the baby bjorn was extremely helpful.

 

Idk, I would absolutely recommend looking for a real human therapist online and researching reading materials over chatting with an AI therapist that has likely been trained on tons of conflicting misinformation with zero understanding of nuance, context, or the human experience.

 

sir you’re talking about a cartoon panda

 

i think i had earlier recommended to this person checking out growtherapy... which is telemedicine but connects people with real therapists. and they take a lot of different providers. but they said their insurance sucked and they were going to check out psychology today or something. obviously a real human in person is going to be the best to read body language and what not, but our health system is totally fubar.

 

????

 

Fair, I just think I would opt for something like BetterHelp in the interim over AI but that's not a permanent solution either and obviously costs money. Just wary of taking the advice of chatbots trained on Google results.

 

if he’s had Covid at all, but especially recently, ask about things like microclots, and see if you can find a long covid doctor.

 

i have no idea what's going on

 

these days it's more physical pain than mental pain bugging me. i've learned how to cope with anxiety and depression. but i broke my foot a few years ago and was in a boot. i had to favor my other leg, and so now my knee on that leg has pain for no reason. going to physical therapy starting in a couple weeks. also, i did a lot of traveling sales for work before grad school (40,000/yr for 2 years) and got hit by bad drivers three times, twice totaling my car. the neck, shoulder, and side pain are persistent. not fun.

 

yeah, i hear you. some would call me an expert on AI, believe it or not!

 

tw miscarriage
my wife is pregnant again and while it’s super exciting, we’re are only like three months out from us losing the last pregnancy which lasted about two weeks longer than where we are at currently so we’re both super anxious and micro analyzing basically every symptom she has whether it’s a positive and something she felt when we had our daughter or something that she felt when we had the failed pregnancy and it’s super taxing/draining tldr just want to fast forward to a month from now lol

 

I feel bad for him

 

Uh yeah. That’s kind of an awful thing to say about and do to a person.

 

Can we not use this thread like this?

 

I deleted those posts. Not thread appropriate.

 

That user is pretty abrasive and was just ignoring them

 

i’ve been wondering if they’re a bot, troll or just a fucked up weirdo (derogatory but not especially derogatory)

 

I’m always late to the drama.

 

same

 

genuinely confused

what happened?