Recovering Your Mental Health
A Self-Help Guide
Getting Health Care
If you possibly can, see a doctor or another health care provider you like
and trust. He or she can help you find out if the way you are feeling
is caused by a medical illness, such as a thyroid problem or diabetes.
In addition, your health care provider is often your best source of referral
for other kinds of help. The sooner you get help, the sooner you will
feel better.
It’s always easier to go to the doctor if you take along a good friend. Your
friend can help you remember what the doctor suggests, and could take
notes if you want notes taken.
When you go to see your health care provider, take a complete listing of all
medicines and anything else you may be doing to help yourself feel better,
and a list of unusual, uncomfortable or painful physical or emotional
symptoms—even if they don’t seem important to you. Also describe
any difficult issues in your life—both things that are going on now
and things that have happened in the past—that may be affecting the
way you feel. This will help the doctor give you the best possible advice
on what you can do to help yourself.
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