How Many of yous have sought proffesional help?

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I have sought spiritual and health counselors before about my condition. They helped a bit, but it seems like helping myself was the biggest help.

I have.

Wasn't happy about it, but I had no other choice.

The way I looked at my treatment is that at least I got a good talk or two out of the bargain.

Yes, I sought professional help for something unrelated until the professional picked up on autistic behaviors.

I have depression and social anxiety so bad that I have occasionally broken down so completely I'd pretty much be homeless or dead if my parents hadn't paid for therapy and medication. the first time was the worst breakdown I've had so far (I think) and my psychiatrist told me point blank the only reason I wasn't institutionalized was because he thought it would just piss me off, make me stop trusting him and my parents even more, and I'd fake recovery until I could kill myself somewhere discretely.

none of it made sense until aspergers came into the picture and I'm getting diagnosed/treated for it right now and will hopefully wind up on disability (I'm about to be too old for my parents' health insurance so medicaid would be literally a life-saver, ditto the monthly stipend because I've been hospitalized over trying to keep retail jobs...)

so yeah, I've done the professional help thing. I've seen a bunch of therapists but this most recent one is kicking ass and taking names compared to the rest of them.

Mental hostels kinda forces it on you.

I wouldn't have otherwise.

I have though the first time It was recommended because I attempted suicide, not sure why I didn't end up in the psych ward, guess they thought counseling would be sufficient. Then after I stopped going I tried again after dropping out of college and trying to give it another attempt at the community college but I couldn't afford to keep going to that therapist and it didn't seem to be much help........and in the past couple months I've been in the psych ward(so I didn't attempt suicide again) saw a psychiatrist after that and am going to another therapist that might be more helpful not sure though what she can really do to help with anything.

Likewise.

And I didn't really have a choice, I was getting treated for something else.

Yes. Original reason was depression and anxiety. I had no idea going into it that autism and OCD would wind up being the explanation for much of my problems.

I take meds and work with a CBT therapist for OCD stuff. Both of those things have certainly helped.

Yes-mostly because of the suggestion/insistence of my mommy and before that the school system.

I goto a phycologist that looks after people with Aspergers and I goto a place that looks after people with Aspergers. My doctor also helps me as well. I go see him regularly he also has regular contact with my physcologist so he can keep an eye on my medication and see if I need anymore medication and he also has Aspergers. I also had a support worker for awhile at a disability agency I used to goto that looks after people with Autism. When I was working in a diability workshop or business services as they are known now as, I had a phycologist who looked after people with Aspergers and he used to come and visit me once a week and I had a councillor check on me everyday because he knew I suffer bad anxiety. I am intending to get a live in carer or a support worker to come and visit me a couple of days a week next year due to the constant problems I have been having and I am considering in getting a dog as well. I love animals and alot of people feel that a dog would help alot with my anxiety and social phobia and my meltdowns, everyone notices the difference in me when I go over their place and they have a dog they all notice I am alot calmer, relaxed, happy go lucky me, laughing, I can socialize alot better, I have no anxiety and I don't get sick at their place or when I am at home.

Yes i have had to seek support for interaction issues...although i am good on one to one with people i still find it very difficult to be around groups of people...although there is not that much support in the UK for people with AS..sadly

There is no need to seek spiritual health, belief in spirits is like belief in goblins and gouls, it just isn't real.

Yes. My mother decided to take me to a therapist when I was 11. Then I was in occupational therapy too. I have been to doctors since I was a baby though and one of the therapies I had been receiving before age two was speech therapy. My mother did lot of the work too.

which isn't to say that empirical study doesn't support the notion that people who know they are being prayed for and believe in the power of prayer do better in medical situations. even if you're going to be evangelical about atheism (and my parents are in a cult and I'm gay so I have some sympathies towards your position) at least acknowledge that the placebo effect can happen and that optimism, whether it's based in fact or not, can be helpful in the healing process.

incidentally the CBT I'm doing to manage my debilitating anxiety is based on collaboration between an MD and a PhD neurologist with Buddhist monks and nuns. due to neuroplasticity, mindfulness meditation techniques can have statistically significant effects in practitioners with even severe anxiety disorders, and there are multiple studies to back this up. like it or not, at least SOME religious practices are actually somewhat ahead of western medicine in terms of treatment for psychological disorders, and skeptical peer reviewed literature admits that on a fairly regular basis. Buddhists may not have discovered the amygdala and stress hormones, but they're a hell of a lot better at managing it when it goes into overdrive than secular materialist biomedical treatment is. 2500 years of cultivated self-awareness is worth looking into, "spiritual" though it may be.

save the hostility for ex-gay therapy and people who think all mental health problems are caused by demons. plain old spirituality and a support system with beliefs you don't happen to share can be perfectly adaptive for many people. christianity may be responsible for half my problems, but that doesn't mean it can't solve some problems for other people.

I must admit i havent had a lot of good experience with "their" help. As a kid when i had problems, back when i was a kid they didn really know to much about Tourette, aspergers and Autism all which i have, so they took me from my mother and put me in a home for kids who are violent and stuff, wonderful.

When i finally got back, we didn ask for much help, and the only help i can get today if being pumped full of pills, which either gives me more sideeffects because of my 3 diagnoise or some of it cause suicidal thoughs.

No i think ill make do without help, ive learned to do as best i can, relying on my self.

Not really a big fan of pills, there is always so many sideeffects, specially when you have so many aspects which i have, thats why they wont even give me the stuff, making one thing better, and the other worse, thats not really helping.