mental health help

Hi.

I’m 20, first year in Cardiff. I don’t want to open this by saying “i’ve been really struggling with my mental health recently” because that isn’t strictly true, it’s been a near-consistent since I was born. However, it’s starting to really interfere with every aspect of my life (barely going to lectures, excessive binge drinking 4/5 days a week, inability to interact with people normally etc etc etc) but I quite literally don’t know how to get help because I never have before. My family are not particularly good communicators and have a silent ‘shut up and deal with it’ attitude, but I think there’s something deeply wrong with me. Like, should be on antipsychotics kind of wrong with me. The only thing I’ve ever been officially diagnosed with is extreme anger issues when I was very little because I set a garden on fire, and I got a whole year of counselling before they sacked it off. The healthcare system confuses me, I’ve never interacted with for even basic ailments (not a fan of hospitals) and in Wales it’s even more confusing. I registered with a near GP but I don’t know what to do from here.

Hi.

I’m 20, first year in Cardiff. I don’t want to open this by saying “i’ve been really struggling with my mental health recently” because that isn’t strictly true, it’s been a near-consistent since I was born. However, it’s starting to really interfere with every aspect of my life (barely going to lectures, excessive binge drinking 4/5 days a week, inability to interact with people normally etc etc etc) but I quite literally don’t know how to get help because I never have before. My family are not particularly good communicators and have a silent ‘shut up and deal with it’ attitude, but I think there’s something deeply wrong with me. Like, should be on antipsychotics kind of wrong with me. The only thing I’ve ever been officially diagnosed with is extreme anger issues when I was very little because I set a garden on fire, and I got a whole year of counselling before they sacked it off. The healthcare system confuses me, I’ve never interacted with for even basic ailments (not a fan of hospitals) and in Wales it’s even more confusing. I registered with a near GP but I don’t know what to do from here.

Hi.

I’m 20, first year in Cardiff. I don’t want to open this by saying “i’ve been really struggling with my mental health recently” because that isn’t strictly true, it’s been a near-consistent since I was born. However, it’s starting to really interfere with every aspect of my life (barely going to lectures, excessive binge drinking 4/5 days a week, inability to interact with people normally etc etc etc) but I quite literally don’t know how to get help because I never have before. My family are not particularly good communicators and have a silent ‘shut up and deal with it’ attitude, but I think there’s something deeply wrong with me. Like, should be on antipsychotics kind of wrong with me. The only thing I’ve ever been officially diagnosed with is extreme anger issues when I was very little because I set a garden on fire, and I got a whole year of counselling before they sacked it off. The healthcare system confuses me, I’ve never interacted with for even basic ailments (not a fan of hospitals) and in Wales it’s even more confusing. I registered with a near GP but I don’t know what to do from here.