Whoa. I should preface this by acknowledging that I know nothing about your situation except what you have revealed in your post and am making no assumptions about your mental health. I am not a certified professional, and my advice should not be taken over that of such a person. Everything I say from this point onwards is purely generic opinion, which may or may not be relevant to you.
This sounds like the sort of symptom that should be treated by a professional psychologist. I have experienced mental health problems first-, second- and third-hand, AND I study them, and I can testify that personal treatments like meditation, whilst useful, are no substitute for outside help. If your axe-handle breaks, you can’t use your axe to cut a sapling to make a new axe handle. Not that it sounds like your axe-handle is anything close to broken, but there’s no point complicating the metaphor by trying to fit it more precisely to a situation about which I have no precise knowledge. Point is, it is my unprofessional opinion that you should mention this to your GP if you haven’t already, and ask them explicitly if they think you should speak to a mental health professional about it. Please excuse me for poking my nose into your private business, obviously you’ve done way more thinking about this than me, but your post made it sound like there was a possibility you were attempting to self-medicate with meditation and I would prefer to come across as a nosy dick than risk someone’s health. :) /Meddle
No offense taken, even if you hadn’t inserted all the apologies for nosiness. I am, in fact, completely bananas, hence my handle. I have been through some bad times but am now on meds, functioning just fine, and taking a variety of silly tests because “bonkers-NOS” is apparently not in the DSM. Go forth with thy worries assuaged, o good Samaritan.
Whoa. I should preface this by acknowledging that I know nothing about your situation except what you have revealed in your post and am making no assumptions about your mental health. I am not a certified professional, and my advice should not be taken over that of such a person. Everything I say from this point onwards is purely generic opinion, which may or may not be relevant to you.
This sounds like the sort of symptom that should be treated by a professional psychologist. I have experienced mental health problems first-, second- and third-hand, AND I study them, and I can testify that personal treatments like meditation, whilst useful, are no substitute for outside help. If your axe-handle breaks, you can’t use your axe to cut a sapling to make a new axe handle. Not that it sounds like your axe-handle is anything close to broken, but there’s no point complicating the metaphor by trying to fit it more precisely to a situation about which I have no precise knowledge. Point is, it is my unprofessional opinion that you should mention this to your GP if you haven’t already, and ask them explicitly if they think you should speak to a mental health professional about it. Please excuse me for poking my nose into your private business, obviously you’ve done way more thinking about this than me, but your post made it sound like there was a possibility you were attempting to self-medicate with meditation and I would prefer to come across as a nosy dick than risk someone’s health. :) /Meddle
No offense taken, even if you hadn’t inserted all the apologies for nosiness. I am, in fact, completely bananas, hence my handle. I have been through some bad times but am now on meds, functioning just fine, and taking a variety of silly tests because “bonkers-NOS” is apparently not in the DSM. Go forth with thy worries assuaged, o good Samaritan.