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Need help locating a counsellor

  • 15-08-2012 10:34pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I need to find myself a counsellor in Belfast, but the one I was recommended last year by my doctor is no longer repsonding to the phone number I have for her.

    I'm not actually sure if it is a conusellor that I need though. Basically, I know what my problems are, so I don;t need deep introspective analysis, but someone to give me a kick up the arse to out and do things.

    I have had depression in the past, numerous counselling sessions all to no avail because I am unable to act uon the advice I am given. I don't know why this is and as I get older I find it increasingly frustrating that things are not working out for me.

    I have no friends. Those that I did have are now married and with kids so don't socialise much any more and have moved away. I have had no luck wit hthe opposite sex - literally none. I have no social interests - there is nothing really that I find interesting although I enjoy weights at the gym. Although sometimes I feel that I'm just making an idiot of myself I as am quite scrawny and not putting on much muscle mass. It's quite frustrating.

    I know you will be screaming at the scream to go out and join a club or charity, etc. I'd say the same to others, but for some reasons I am unable to do this. I have gotten intoa rut and I'm unable to move.

    I like the movies, but I've not been there in over 1 year. I keep meaning to go, but I never do. This is a familiar picture across my life.

    I don't know what is wrong with me. I think I'm going crazy. Sometimes I feel that my life is not worth living (usually at night time). I have to get this sorted.

    Counsellors have not found resolution for me so far, so is it still one of these people I need to help move on with my life? At 35yo I'm running out of chances. My chances of having a family of my own are reduced greatly because I'm in my mid 30's and have no relationship experience.

    I want to get my life together, but despite endless promises that tonight will be the start, it never is.

    Please help me - this feels like my time of reckoning. If I don't reolve this now, I feel that my life will slip into something I don't even want to contemplate.


    Thanks for reading.


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  • #2
    Taltos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    Hi OP.

    Unfortunately this site cannot provide medical advice but more importantly to your question we also cannot provide professional recommendations for specific individuals.

    There are some resources on our charter that might be of benefit but ideally you need to get a referral from your GP or another doctor.

    Sorry we cannot be of more help.
    Taltos


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