therapy for low income ?

Is there a choice for someone with low income to get therapy. I don`t have a lot of money but need therapy to help me out. My problems are really bad I am struggling to do everyday things getting outside is getting more and more hard. I have problems with my thoughts and need to find a direction to go with my life. My depression is getting harder and not better the other day I find myself unable to mail a letter. I have no one to talk to and need to vent and get stuff off my chest. I look into medicare but I don`t understand what anything means I am afraid I am going to make anther mistake like I been doing for the last few days. Is there any kind of therapy online that cheap that I could take.

It looks like there are some options, but I didnt fully understand what it was talking about. Things like Federally Funded Health centers.

My first suggestion is to not put "therapy" in a box. By that I mean don't define therapy as you and a counselor and that's it...to me "therapy" is anything to alleviate the pain of depression. What makes you laugh or distracts your mind and what do you find meaning in? Maybe I could be wrong, you have dived into your hobbies and such and they just aren't doing the trick for you anymore but you say nothing about that topic.

Hot_Tamale said:

My first suggestion is to not put "therapy" in a box. By that I mean don't define therapy as you and a counselor and that's it...to me "therapy" is anything to alleviate the pain of depression. What makes you laugh or distracts your mind and what do you find meaning in? Maybe I could be wrong, you have dived into your hobbies and such and they just aren't doing the trick for you anymore but you say nothing about that topic.

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I think the problem is he needs someone to talk to but no one in his life currently is willing to listen. One would suspect this happens to folks with SA/avoidance once they move out of the house, which the OP has just done if I am correct.

A story I want to share with you all

Today I try to cure my self again I went out for a bike ride. Because I don`t have a car and I am in the middle of nowhere. I went out and find a good place to set and relax that part went o.k. But that was not satisfying enough to me I needed to find a place where their are some social perks. So I head in anther direction a far off place up a steep hill and I road for hours on back roads where car are inches away from you and shape corners and they go fast because they are not used to traffic.

this was the last thing I wanted to try but the morning when I deside to go bike riding I was so fed up with my life I told myself I don`t care if this kills me or not my life is not worth living if I don`t try somthing. what is written is written even if it writing me to death. I am not a very health person eather so this was a big challenge for my heart get tired very easy. I was heading that way because I remember there was a restaurant their miles away. The hills was very hard on my heart but I did not care far as I was concerned I did not have nothing worth going home too.

On the way there I heared a big dog barking I was worried it would try and come for me. I was o.k in tell the ride home the hills was starting to get to me I was taking it easy on my heart that was in tell I heard the dog again so I hurry up past the barking dog. and that was where disaster struck that was just all my heart could take. I was breathing very hard and the bright sunny day was getting more and more dim but it was not that time of day it was still morning it was me my body was shuting down. I stud still for awhile then I just find myself on the ground I did not even notice that I fell I was so out of it. I slowly made my way home worried this was ture my death I really was going to die. Thankfully at that time their was no cars around me I awoke on the road.

Megaten said:

It looks like there are some options, but I didnt fully understand what it was talking about. Things like Federally Funded Health centers.

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I been looking into medicare hopefully that could be the way I find myself into therapy . I did see some where I would only have to pay 20% of what is really cost but what every that means.

Hot_Tamale said:

My first suggestion is to not put "therapy" in a box. By that I mean don't define therapy as you and a counselor and that's it...to me "therapy" is anything to alleviate the pain of depression. What makes you laugh or distracts your mind and what do you find meaning in? Maybe I could be wrong, you have dived into your hobbies and such and they just aren't doing the trick for you anymore but you say nothing about that topic.

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yes I appreciate your advice. I been trying my whole life to fix myself and I am in my thirties and still have no sucess. it not going to get better in tell I find help.I have tryed many thing to try and help myself but no matter what I do it like there a force holding me back.

Bronson99 said:

I think the problem is he needs someone to talk to but no one in his life currently is willing to listen. One would suspect this happens to folks with SA/avoidance once they move out of the house, which the OP has just done if I am correct.

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yes, you are right I did move out and it been hard on me. My whole life is new now. My old habits don`t work well with this new life now I am still trying hard to make my old habits work for me. I hope they come back.

Drexel University offers free therapy which can be done remotely; there is a thread aboout it on this site from 2012. There was another thread about therapy in America done via smartphone.

There is a website called Mood Gym which is based in Australia. It may be open to anyone.

Bo592 said:

I been looking into medicare hopefully that could be the way I find myself into therapy . I did see some where I would only have to pay 20% of what is really cost but what every that means.

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I suppose thats pretty good. Not sure why therapist cost so much considering theyre just asking you how you feel. Granted I will admit that my time with a therapist did help. But most of the progress made was the work I did. Heck even if I asked her a question the response would be something like "I dont know. What do you think?" She was cute though.

Megaten said:

I suppose thats pretty good. Not sure why therapist cost so much considering theyre just asking you how you feel. Granted I will admit that my time with a therapist did help. But most of the progress made was the work I did. Heck even if I asked her a question the response would be something like "I dont know. What do you think?" She was cute though.

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Man I would have asked her out on a date!

Bronson99 said:

Man I would have asked her out on a date!

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Oh nah, they've got strict rules about getting too personal/intimate with patients. And my heart couldn't have taken another rejection that year anyways.

With today's potential knowledge i would say therapy is something that is not really something that should be paid for. We have an entire internet to search for answers. If you are low income, as I am, I would suggest finding other paths beside therapy.

Anyway, most therapists don't have a clue what it's like to be you.