She first established the scale of my anxiety…in terms of Problems With Talkspace… what activates it– social circumstances, meeting people for the first time– and then dived headlong into my fractious childhood (divorced parents, stretched familial relationships, bullied in junior school). She was quite nosey tbh, however then that’s her task, isn’t it?
Overall, the service is remarkably 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 expected. I even got fast responses to messages over the weekend, which was unexpected.
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 minute. So profound minutes of realisation may be tough to come by if you can’t get an unwinded flow going.
Who do I think it might it benefit?
Anyone with a low-end psychological health concern 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 serious attention (and possibly some meds), probably isn’t for you Problems With Talkspace