She first ascertained the scale of my stress and anxiety…in terms of Betterhelp Stories… what activates it– social circumstances, meeting people for the very first time– and then dived headlong into my fractious youth (divorced parents, strained familial relationships, bullied in junior school). She was pretty nosey tbh, but then that’s her task, isn’t it?
In general, the service is impressively slick. The conversation can be a little stop-starty sometimes, but it was actually a far smoother and more on-tap experience than I expected. I even got fast responses to messages over the weekend, which was unanticipated.
Talkspace vs Betterhelp
The reality you can edit messages before sending them implies you’re not likely to blurt out something vulnerable and revealing in the heat of the moment. Extensive moments of realisation may be tough to come by if you can’t get an unwinded circulation going.
Who do I believe it might it be good for?
Anybody with a low-end mental health problem who’s cool with getting counselled in an extremely internet-y, 2016-y way. If you’re living under the blackest, bleakest cloud possible and require severe attention (and perhaps some meds), probably isn’t for you Betterhelp Stories