Thank you.
It's not through the nhs, it's a community counselling service that works on a donation basis, so it's not fully private, unlike nhs counselling it's not a prescribed set of 12 sessions (if your lucky) also hopefully not too long a waiting time because it seems like they have quite a lot of people working there and they train people up too. My only stipulation was the time I can do it coz of work, other than that I'm flexible. So they couldn't give me an exact waiting time, but they said hopefully I should hear within the month (so hopefully in the next three weeks as I had my assessment last week).
No professional support at the mo, outside of my gp but getting an appointment with them is neigh on impossible and my experience with other gps in that surgery have been really **** when it comes to MH (one wanted to just take me off my meds, having only met me once)
I self referred, it was something I'd been planning to do for sometime, but then I recently went through a sudden break-up so that pushed me to seek some support.
Outside of my ex, self-harm is something I've never felt able to talk about with anyone, and then it just feels like the longer I've left it the harder it becomes/ the more shame, guilt and worry I feel. Logically I know I could, but I'm too scared. Almost any experience I've had of talking to anyone other than ex, or a few friend who have self-harmed has just been atrocious.
Thank you. I really appreciate it.
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