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I know this is long, but I think I need help. Someone please read
Mental Health | Last Active: Feb 12, 2021 | Replies (36)Comment receiving replies
@keltothemoon Hello and I am so thankful you reached out for support. There are so many incredible members who trade giving and getting support on Connect. Already, @artscaping and @georgette12 have come into this conversation to provide their thoughts and ask some additional questions. Based on your feedback, I can see sharing with your family is very important to you personally as well as because you will need their support in many ways to go to that next level of connecting with a professional who can help to start the process of diagnosis and then ultimately stabilizing.
I might suggest starting with sharing with them since you feel you will not be able to get to step two without them knowing. That said, it sounds like you have a very loving family yet you are struggling to find the best way to share this with them. Do you think you would be more comfortable sharing verbally or in a short letter? You are a lovely writer and could literally take your post and adapt it.
Which way do you feel would make YOU feel more comfortable and allow you to check step 1 off of your list?
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First off, thanks for the compliment on my writing, I pride myself on writing and it's nice for people to notice. Secondly, whether I tell them verbally or through a letter is something I need to think about. I think a letter would be better as I often get tongue-tied and anxious. It is very important to me that I share this with my family, but the reason I have it as such a high priority is because I don't think I can get help without them knowing. But is there? Because I know for a fact they'd respond the best if I came to them with words from someone that they'd listen to. Like is it possible to talk to and get diagnosed online or through calls? Does anyone have any suggestions for how a broke, dependent 18 year old could go about this without talking with my parents? I'm so sorry if these sound like dumb questions, I'm extremely unknowledgeable about the subject of mental health altogether and am just asking whatever comes to my mind and hoping they're legit questions and not dumb ones lol. If not, and my parents are the only way, I'll probably go about adapting my post and sending it to them.