I haven’t talked to any doctors about my mental illnesses since my pre teens due to dealing with judgemental doctors or doctors who didn’t care to treat me, even though I’ve gotten diagnosis’ from specialists.
Chronic pain has made my mental pain 10x worse, I’ve been getting compulsions, paranoia, constant anxiety, along with no motivation, the whole nine yards. I would even think, it would be better to be dead than to go through chronic pain like this, which isn’t good and scared me
Finally, after years of dealing with the worsening mental aspects of chronic pain I worked up the courage to talk about it with my GP today. She was very open about it and happy to help me out, I’m really glad and have high hopes about my new treatment
In the end it feels really good to have been listened to, it gives me strength to never give up in finding someone who will help 😊