She initially determined the scale of my stress and anxiety…in terms of Emotional Numb Betterhelp… what triggers it– social circumstances, meeting people for the very first time– and after that dived headlong into my fractious youth (separated moms and dads, stretched 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 discussion can be a little stop-starty at times, but it was in fact a far smoother and more on-tap experience than I expected. I even got speedy actions to messages over the weekend, which was unanticipated.
Talkspace vs Betterhelp
The fact you can edit messages before sending them indicates you’re unlikely to blurt out something revealing and unguarded in the heat of the moment. Extensive moments of realisation might be hard to come by if you can’t get an unwinded flow going.
Who do I believe it might it benefit?
Anybody with a low-end psychological health problem who’s cool with getting counselled in an extremely internet-y, 2016-y method. If you’re living under the blackest, bleakest cloud imaginable and require serious attention (and potentially some meds), most likely isn’t for you Emotional Numb Betterhelp