Hi Everyone. It's my first time posting in mental health, although I've been on Mumsnet for several years. I've struggled with mental health since my teens and am now in my thirties looking back on how much it has affected my life in a negative way. In the past I've engaged (or tried to engage) with mental health services but have never received adequate help, just the usual eleventy month waiting list and a prescription of Sertraline that takes the edge off but nothing more. I don't blame the NHS for this as I know they are stretched to breaking point.
Realistically nobody is going to help me. I have to help myself.
(That sounds dramatic; I am lucky to have the support of my frankly heroic DH who has been dealing with this for the last fourteen years. What I'm trying to say is that I want to be able to help myself to take some of the burden off him.)
So, I wondered if anyone knows of any online resources, i.e. CBT worksheets, useful websites, etc, that might support self-therapy? If there isn't a similar thread I thought it might be useful not only for myself but for others on this board.
In my case, it's specifically what I think is generalised anxiety disorder and trying to break out of unhelpful thought patterns. My anxiety is rooted in past trauma so I've also been trying to work through those events and see a correlation between them and the things that trigger my anxiety, if that makes sense?
It's a small start, but I found this link on Buzzfeed (of all places!) which shows you how to use a bullet journal for self-care. Journalling is something I'm finding very helpful and I'd like to start doing it in a more structured way in the new year:
www.buzzfeed.com/rachelwmiller/mental-health-bullet-journal?utm_term=.jwYV1l7nl#.kfGw9Yb5Y
Anymore for anymore?