She first established the scale of my anxiety…in terms of Betterhelp Affiliates… what triggers it– social situations, satisfying individuals for the first time– and then dived headlong into my fractious youth (divorced parents, stretched familial relationships, bullied in junior school). She was quite nosey tbh, but then that’s her task, isn’t it?
Overall, the service is impressively slick. The conversation can be a little stop-starty sometimes, however it was actually a far smoother and more on-tap experience than I expected. I even got rapid actions to messages over the weekend, which was unexpected.
Talkspace vs Betterhelp
The truth you can edit messages before sending them implies you’re unlikely to blurt out something vulnerable and revealing in the heat of the moment. Profound moments of realisation may be tough to come by if you can’t get an unwinded circulation going.
Who do I think it might it benefit?
Anybody 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 require severe attention (and potentially some meds), probably isn’t for you Betterhelp Affiliates