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How do you decide what 'issue' to work through and when?

CheerBearSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 2:27 pm AEDT

How do you decide what 'issue' to work through and when?

When there are a number of mental health issues happening, how do you decide what to focus on? It makes sense to me to focus on the underlying/core issue/s but when other things come up because of them and seem to need more immediate attention, how do you manage that?

As an example, I see my clinical psych who helps me work through some of the central issues, but it seems time consuming enough that we miss the opportunity to work through other things sometimes. One being disordered eating that can happen when things get extra tricky for me. I contacted The Butterfly Foundation today (for the first time and I am very thankful they were fab!) who gave me some info and spoke about how it could be helpful to get some specialised ongoing support, but it seems that I'd need to use my mental health care plan for it because I couldn't afford to see anyone privately which would then take my (mostly) really helpful psych out of the picture. I hit a similar barrier when looking into specific trauma support.

I believe that specialised support could be really helpful but how does anyone access multiple supports in terms of affordability when so many specialists work privately, let alone manage how much time it would take when we are talking about multiple/complex issues? Too many professionals involved has been difficult for me before and I'm not too keen on doing that again.

And how do you decide what to tackle and when?

Really keen to hear anyone's experiences with working through a similar issue - please and thanks 🙂

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CheerBearSenior Contributor06 Jan 2018, 3:30 pm AEDT

Re: How do you decide what 'issue' to work through and when?

Thank you @Former-Member for your understanding, encouragement and support. Really appreciate it and what you have shared helps.

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Shaz51Senior Contributor13 Jan 2018, 7:38 pm AEDT

Re: How do you decide what 'issue' to work through and when?

Thanks oodles to you all for sharing and listening. It helps to be able to talk it through and make some sense of it.

@CheerBear, I found everyones comment interesting and helpful , how about you , sending you hugs my friend

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CheerBearSenior Contributor14 Jan 2018, 7:55 am AEDT

Re: How do you decide what 'issue' to work through and when?

Hiya @Shaz51 ☺ I found it really helpful to get these perspectives and ideas thanks Shaz.

I am going/have gone with tackle the most pressing and immediate needs first (which is what I have done/am still working on) and then address the underlying stuff that causes it to surface in the first place so that hopefully it doesn't keep surfacing. I've got a referral in process for a psychiatrist and while that process happens I am trying to focus on the basic (and very important) stuff to find a more settled place again. I find I need to rework how the support I have can be used supportively, often, as I imagine many of us do.

Hugs back for you Shaz and thanks ❤

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