She first determined the scale of my stress and anxiety…in terms of Better Help Malaysia… what triggers it– social situations, meeting individuals for the first time– and after that dived headlong into my fractious childhood (divorced parents, strained familial relationships, bullied in junior school). She was quite nosey tbh, but then that’s her job, isn’t it?
In general, the service is impressively slick. The conversation can be a little stop-starty at times, but it was really a far smoother and more on-tap experience than I expected. I even got rapid actions to messages over the weekend, which was unanticipated.
Talkspace vs Betterhelp
The fact you can edit messages before sending them implies you’re unlikely to blurt out something unguarded and revealing in the heat of the minute. So extensive minutes of realisation may be difficult to come by if you can’t get an unwinded circulation going.
Who do I believe it might it benefit?
Anyone with a low-end psychological health issue who’s cool with getting counselled in an extremely internet-y, 2016-y way. If you’re living under the blackest, bleakest cloud you can possibly imagine and need serious attention (and possibly some meds), most likely isn’t for you Better Help Malaysia