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Re: Our Community Youth Voice Group: Taster Session 🎄
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Re: Age regression and memory loss
Hey @Rose113 -
Just wanted to say i'm so proud of you for not only sharing this part of your story with us, but also giving a bit of insight into what it's like to experience age regressions. i think it's a really brave thing to share and i think you being able to speak about it on here gives it the awareness that i think a lot of people may not have (myself included as i'd heard of it but didn't know a great deal about it). but i can imagine it's super challenging especially if it affects your speech or memory.
and i'm sorry to hear you often feel alone in these experiences - likely due to the lack of available support specifically on it and the under-education of such challenges within services etc.
whilst us on here may not be super educated on the depths of age regressions - we are all here if you need a space to rant or vent or support you in any way we can.
sending you lots of hugs and hope you're doing okay
keep going you've got this!!!
Sinead
Just wanted to say i'm so proud of you for not only sharing this part of your story with us, but also giving a bit of insight into what it's like to experience age regressions. i think it's a really brave thing to share and i think you being able to speak about it on here gives it the awareness that i think a lot of people may not have (myself included as i'd heard of it but didn't know a great deal about it). but i can imagine it's super challenging especially if it affects your speech or memory.
and i'm sorry to hear you often feel alone in these experiences - likely due to the lack of available support specifically on it and the under-education of such challenges within services etc.
whilst us on here may not be super educated on the depths of age regressions - we are all here if you need a space to rant or vent or support you in any way we can.
sending you lots of hugs and hope you're doing okay
keep going you've got this!!!
Sinead
Re: Barrier of getting support
@TheNightmare Hey there,
All of what you mentioned here makes a lot of sense to me. It's a lot to ask for help and go through the steps of receiving it. Any professional you speak with, especially a counsellor will be aware of the vulnerability that comes with asking for help and do their best to help you feel comfortable during that journey. You mentioned wanting free options, here are some that you could look into.
Remember there is no rush to this, you can take your time and see what works for you. Breathe and know that you have The community team here rooting for you!
All of what you mentioned here makes a lot of sense to me. It's a lot to ask for help and go through the steps of receiving it. Any professional you speak with, especially a counsellor will be aware of the vulnerability that comes with asking for help and do their best to help you feel comfortable during that journey. You mentioned wanting free options, here are some that you could look into.
Remember there is no rush to this, you can take your time and see what works for you. Breathe and know that you have The community team here rooting for you!
briannat
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Re: Barrier of getting support
@TheNightmare If you feel like something could potentially help then do it, even if your not sure if it’s going to do anything, and if it doesn’t work try something else, The way I see it it’s better to try things even if your not sure they’ll help rather than not do anything and let problems get worse
The thing about therapy is it won’t solve everything but it will give you some skills and confidence to help you progress in making things better, I think the problem is when some people go to therapy and it doesn’t solve all their problems they think it’s useless and start telling others it’s useless, which is harmful to themselves and others
Therapy will be the first step in the right direction for you so don’t think about it to much and try it and see where it leads you, it’ll probably lead you to step two, then that’ll lead you to step three, and step by step things will start to get better, and remember worst case scenario therapy doesn’t work out, just take pride in yourself you had the confidence to take the first step and look for other things that could potentially help and don’t be afraid to try them
You can do it I promise
@JMMV2005 Thanks for replying —it’s really encouraging. I like how you framed therapy as a journey with steps forward rather than an instant fix. It makes it feel less overwhelming, and your belief in me means a lot. Thanks again.
Re: Barrier of getting support
@TheNightmare If you feel like something could potentially help then do it, even if your not sure if it’s going to do anything, and if it doesn’t work try something else, The way I see it it’s better to try things even if your not sure they’ll help rather than not do anything and let problems get worse
The thing about therapy is it won’t solve everything but it will give you some skills and confidence to help you progress in making things better, I think the problem is when some people go to therapy and it doesn’t solve all their problems they think it’s useless and start telling others it’s useless, which is harmful to themselves and others
Therapy will be the first step in the right direction for you so don’t think about it to much and try it and see where it leads you, it’ll probably lead you to step two, then that’ll lead you to step three, and step by step things will start to get better, and remember worst case scenario therapy doesn’t work out, just take pride in yourself you had the confidence to take the first step and look for other things that could potentially help and don’t be afraid to try them
You can do it I promise
The thing about therapy is it won’t solve everything but it will give you some skills and confidence to help you progress in making things better, I think the problem is when some people go to therapy and it doesn’t solve all their problems they think it’s useless and start telling others it’s useless, which is harmful to themselves and others
Therapy will be the first step in the right direction for you so don’t think about it to much and try it and see where it leads you, it’ll probably lead you to step two, then that’ll lead you to step three, and step by step things will start to get better, and remember worst case scenario therapy doesn’t work out, just take pride in yourself you had the confidence to take the first step and look for other things that could potentially help and don’t be afraid to try them
You can do it I promise
JMMV2005
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