How to talk to your GP about your mental health | Find the Words
We want everyone with a mental health problem who visits their GP practice to get the support that best suits their needs. That’s what our new campaign Find the Words is all about.
For most of us, our local GP practice is the first place we’ll go when we’re unwell. It’s there to help us with our mental health as well as our physical health.
In fact, around one third of all GP appointments are related to mental health. However, it’s not always easy having that first conversation about your deepest feelings with your GP, someone you may hardly know.
That’s why we’ve made a short film on how to make the most of the few minutes you have with your GP or practice nurse.
Find out more at http://www.mind.org.uk/findthewords
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My gp has known me and my family for 8 years as he's been our GP for that long which makes it worse, I prefer someone I don't kjowb
Could I go see my Practice Nurse instead of my GP , since I've known her longer ?
Would she be able to help?
Hey, Nice channel. I subscribed. Keep it up 🙂
But GPs often know nothing about mental health. Once when I was in the midst of a severe bout of depression, I had these strange experiences where I would feel I was in a nightmare when I was awake. I would see and hear where I was, and also see and hear the nightmare. He brushed me off, as he thought I was confusing being asleep with being awake. I was on medication, so it eventually stopped happening but I was terrified and found it very disturbing and I just wanted to be told things were ok. Along with the other things I was thinking and feeling, I think there's a good chance I was experiencing psychosis so I should have been referred back to the mental health team.
Going to the doctor today for the first time in over 4 years. Need to figure out how to bring up social anxiety in a normal way. I just don't know what to say. It's like I need therapy, but don't want to talk. If I could just have a second person in my mind talking to me about things I need to talk about it would be so much easier. There's no time limit or pay or worry of if the doctor actually cares or just wants to give you a pill and get you out.
This made me cry omg thank you.
I am an avid #MentalHealthAwareness advocate and performer, and I love this so much. I travel the country trying to bring that awareness on stages, in classrooms, hospitals, and on my YouTube channel, so I get excited when I see other advocates. 💙❤
Very positive video. Hope this helps many people. My channel itself exists for mental health awareness, and I’m creating videos for just that. Love and peace to all. We are here, YOU are not alone. 💕
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That’s where you’re wrong, buster!
This is so important. My first GP was not understanding at all, but I switched and luckily got the support I needed 🙂
Я болен и веду свой подобный канал, наверное надо сказать спасибо.
"There is no wrong to tell someone how you're feeling" Telling someone in an inaccurate way would be the wrong way.
i just want to say, i finally am speaking up about my mental health and i’m going to go to the doctor soon! i finally brought it up with my dad and he’s going to schedule me an appointment tomorrow because i’m too scared to do it myself! 😂😂
if anyone’s struggling to open up about needing serious help, please do because you’ll feel so good about finally taking action on it afterwards! i feel like i’m finally trying to get my life together! lol
i just needed to comment this because i am so proud of myself for finally bringing it up and wanted to share with the -2 people who will see this comment😂😂💞
We have objective findings now associated with ECT by TBI specialist in notes. This is also used in some situations of dementia and autism. It is a way to manage behavior as if one were kicked in the head by a horse. It is used in pregnancy, on children, and on our Veterans. There is an increase in suicidal thoughts and suicide following ECT. Please inform yourself of this procedure. If your child has had ECT there are no time constraints to file for medical malpractice.
Electroshock or ECT has no FDA testing for safety or even effectiveness. Devices have never had pre-market approval before the FDA. Based on electrical mechanism of trauma CA. courts have proved brain injuries at minimum. Electrical trauma can evolve years out to include CTE and ALS. National product liability suit taking place and medical malpractice firms interviewing for suit. Two suits also filed against the FDA. We have also approached for discrimination and fraud/false claims suits. ECT no longer just used for depression nor as a last resort. It is battery of patients. This is a women's rights issue as well. Women mostly impacted and secondary to TBI one becomes less effective in life. Inform yourselves. See ectjustice now owned by firms participating in national suit. Consent is fallible. Actual structural brain changes result from this and that is certainly missing from consent but not from their research. We need many more firms to hear from patients. You have a known mechanism and you have a known and anticipated outcomes in ALL populations. This is what all trauma is based on and this is purely trauma.
I don’t have any mental health but me and two of my friends are going to do a cake sale in school for this charity. Also we have to do mindfulness every afternoon. I’m a massive SAFC fan so that’s where I heard of this charity
Well, there is the wrong way. That's not relaying correct information to the GP.
My regular doc and Whanganui mental health services in NZ just won't listen, at all.
They keep sending me in circles and demanding I take meds otherwise no professional mental health assistance will be provided.
I know I'm not well and am desperate to just talk it out with someone who possesses the knowledge, experience, time, resources and capacity to connect.
However they actually get quite angry at me for not being comfortable with taking random meds, without any diagnoses, and still asking for professional help.
The Whanganui mental health services do things like give me an appointment to which I show up to on time, only to find the person whom the appointment was with isn't working that day and that the appointment must be rescheduled.
Only to not hear back from them and when inquiring am told that I had failed to show, am at fault and have been removed from their service.
My brother came with me to the GP and the mental health service this week, which is the first time I haven't gone alone. He got to see what I've been trying to deal with, he is disgusted and confused.
I hope no one else is treated as poorly, hopefully it's not common practice to guilt, shame and invalidate those seeking help.
It's not fair or logical to be denied this help unless taking their drugs.
Going to the doctor today, in precisely 20 minutes from now. The nerves are real
I’m going to the doctor’s tomorrow about my mental health but I just don’t know how to bring it up. I feel like it would be weird to walk in and just say hey I think I’m depressed but I don’t know how else to say it. Any advise??
ECT or electroshock sometimes ordered to treat depression and other conditions. No FDA testing of device or procedure ever done. See ectjustice about law suit taking place around devices and contact the DK law group in CA to see about joining suit. Pass along this information. Brain injuries proven in a court of law tied to this procedure. Lies and cover ups for decades. ALS and CTE long term outcomes of electrical trauma.5 billion garnered from this annually in US alone. Share this information so others are warned. New you tube videos on this uploaded under my name if interested.
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