I'm just disgusted about how much money makes the world go round.  I don't have health insurance or anything like that and I need help. My psychological state  has been fluctuating lately and it's been driving me nuts. I think it has something to do with the time of year that some shit happened a couple years ago, but I find it hard to admit to myself that it's still bothering me. I've been feeling depressed for a little bit for the past few days and I have to fight it and I don't want to give in. But constantly fighting it is taking its toll. I wanna go get professional help, but I have no way of paying for it. People are always raising money for more worthier causes like starving people, homeless and all of that. But fuck man. I'm the one who needs help yknow?

I don't mean to come on GW and bitch about my problems, but I'm only human and I was wondering what the hell can I do. I just feel like that event has affected me, no matter how hard it is for me to admit it. It's pretty fucking lame. I don't want to be bothered by this shit and I want to actually do the schoolwork I've been neglecting. I know the obvious answers, do your fucking work, be less emo, get over it. But I just feel like something is wrong. I don't even know. It's kinda hard to accurately portray what's going on inside this head when I don't even know. My school doesn't offer any counseling services, but do you guys know of anything I can call or get a hold of that won't charge me anything?

Talking about shit doesn't help at all. I think I need to take some tests and be diagnosed. I know everyone has a life story and that life is 1% what happens to you 99% how you deal with it. I'm dealing fine, but I just feel like I could be doing better.

there are services for people who don't have the means to afford therapists, sometimes free and stuff. where are you at? we could google therapists in your area.

Do you go to college?  I know my college has a free therapist, and even if you don't go there you may be able to see a local college's therapist, or if you go to any school they may have options too.  I'm pretty sure you can find help one way or another.

Happy birthday Fatboys #4 and hope you have a swell day

right now im in melbourne, florida. i go to orlando a lot too. appreciate it. i don't know. the only college in proximity is ucf and they only offer counseling services to their students.

I see a few, but I can't figure out pricing. You should google and call dude, you sound kind of fucked atm and it would probably help!

well, i've been seeing a therapist since January for anxiety, depression, and a whole bunch of other things, but yeah... it's helped a lot. and i see a psychiatrist once a month to check on how my depression medicine is working. you sound like you could really benefit from seeing a therapist, and you should research possibilities. not all of them are that expensive; mine is 30 dollars a week i think (which is actually really cheap and we got like some sort of discount thing with insurance or something).
another option would be to just talk to your friends. before i started seeing a therapist, i talked about my problems with my close friends after i worked up the nerve to tell them about that stuff. if you have close friends, you might want to tell them how you're feeling (even though that can sorta be pretty gay but trust me, good friends can help). my friends were the ones who encouraged me to see a therapist, too.
so, you should definitely do something if you feel like you want to. talk to people that are close to you, and research about therapists. hopefully you'll be able to find someone to help you through your tough times. :] good luck man.

Have a chat to your GP if you have one and try to narrow down some psychiatrists/therapists (depending on what route you want to take). It's hard to choose and get the process started by yourself, and you'll be glad you did it once you have.

There's a lot of people in similar positions mentally so it shouldn't be too hard to find a local solution. Good luck.

man that sucks dude! i kinda take my health insurance for granted, i see a therapist every week, and i never realized how much that adds up without something to cover, and how many people don't have access to it

its good you're seeing this yourself though and doing something about, i know we probably don't have the exact same symptoms but i let my depression drag me down quite a bit and it actually took a family intervention to get me out, so at least you can get some help before you hit rock bottom or whatever.

good luck dawg

It sounds like you could use some help. I don't know much about the American mental health service or anything like that, but you should do everything you can to find some free/affordable help. Hell man, if you ever feel totally out of it you can even send me an email or PM if you want. These issues are important, dude. Good luck.

well i don't really know how to answer your question but i don't think there's anything wrong with looking for a bit of assistance from some pros or semi-pros, or even just like a group or something. i don't think it's emo or whatever you said, it's not weak. weak would be to go about your day to day carrying a bunch of fucked up stuff inside because you didn't have either the courage or desire to live your life to do something about it.

i've been thinking of going to something like this for a little while. i tried a little alcohol counselling last spring but it just wasn't really any help with anything. i quit drinking will i was doing it and for a while after but i started again. can you just talk to someone about it? i've been thinking of looking for one of those groups where it's a bunch of people with the same problems talking about them. not AA, cos i looked at their 12 step stuff and that higher power stuff is just a load of shit, but a group of some kind. since you didn't give the specifics of the event, maybe there is a group out there for it if it's a kind of traumatic event?

cos those things tend not to cost money, well in britain anyway i don't know how things are in britain but you must be able to find something.

If you want a chat let me know. I have been through some tough heart breaking, confidence destroying (or whatever you call it) times and am currently getting help for my problems. Send me a PM if you want I can offer some advice.

You can admit yourself to a local mental institution, they are usually government owned and provide care, I don't know for sure if the US has a cost, but most canadian facilities don't.

Or you can talk to me, I know it doesn't sound like much but I have helped others in the past at least feel better if not gotten somewhat better.

  My advice is to try a different approach to your own personal self-help. Sometimes I think psychotherapy is noting but a crock of doctors mostly wanting to prescribe drugs, when most of the time I find people are just down becasue they think bad stuff happens to them. What you should do is just take some time and reason through your problem on your own. Having someone to talk to can be useful, but really you should deal with it.
  And if thinking about it isn't enough if you can't seem to reason through it, if you want to change the way you think you might have to change your behaviour, too. Maybe you need to get a new job, exercise more, sleep more, maybe you should try to focus energies traditionally devoted to sexual or physical activites into more intellectual pursuits, or the other way around. Just don't keep doing what you're doing, otherwise things will stay the same. Maybe change the way you sleep, the way you eat, the TV shows you watch, or the people you hang out with. If you're focussed on changing your mindset you're going to also have to try to change the things that affect it, like your surroundings and your experiences. Maybe you need to isolate yourself, or even get more social. Decide how you want to be, and then take the steps that you need to take in order to live your life how you want it.
  But yeah.... self help is easier than most people think, but people who are going through tough stuff seek out the reassurance of another individual, but I say there is no reason why you cannot change the way you think or the way you feel on your own.