She first established the scale of my stress and anxiety…in terms of Better Help Hours… what triggers it– social situations, meeting people for the first time– and then dived headlong into my fractious youth (separated moms and dads, strained familial relationships, bullied in junior school). She was pretty nosey tbh, but then that’s her task, isn’t it?
Overall, the service is impressively slick. The discussion can be a little stop-starty at times, but it was actually a far smoother and more on-tap experience than I anticipated. I even got fast responses to messages over the weekend, which was unforeseen.
Talkspace vs Betterhelp
The fact you can edit messages prior to sending them means you’re not likely to blurt out something revealing and unguarded in the heat of the minute. So extensive moments of realisation may be difficult to come by if you can’t get an unwinded circulation going.
Who do I think it might it be good for?
Anybody with a low-end mental health issue who’s cool with getting counselled in a very internet-y, 2016-y method. If you’re living under the blackest, bleakest cloud you can possibly imagine and require major attention (and possibly some meds), most likely isn’t for you Better Help Hours