{"id":193,"date":"2019-10-10T03:36:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T03:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2019-10-11T00:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T00:34:21","slug":"how-do-you-know-when-its-time-to-see-a-psychologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/archives\/193","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Know When It\u2019s Time to See a Psychologist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GreenRibbon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GreenRibbon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GreenRibbon-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s probably best to start by addressing the false\nnotion that visiting a psychologist should be limited to only critical points\nof your life, some sort of personal crisis or when there is a buildup of\nemotion that is nearing a dysfunctional level. This is not true. When you don\u2019t\ngo to see your family doctor or your dentist for regular checkups, you run the\nrisk of small issues becoming larger ones seemingly \u2018out of the blue\u2019. Similarly,\nwhen thinking of visiting a therapist, not only can you think of this as a\ngreat way to make sense of some of the burdens of day to day life, but it can\nalso help to identify those seemingly small issues that have the potential to\nquietly grow into bigger and more problematic emotional stressors. Here are\nsome of the more obvious signs that it may be time to see a psychologist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Your sleeping and\/or eating\npatterns have changed significantly (too much or too little)<\/li><li>You have frequent tension\nheadaches and other physical pains not linked to a physical health condition<\/li><li>You have trouble concentrating\non your everyday school or work tasks and are having several accidents at work,\nschool or around the house.<\/li><li>You are having frequent fall\nouts with friends, colleagues and\/or family members<\/li><li>You feel a sense of hopeless<\/li><li>You feel particularly irritable\n<\/li><li>You started leaning on an unhealthy\ncoping mechanism (like drugs, alcohol etc.)<\/li><li>Your performance at work or\nschool has declined noticably<\/li><li>Your thinking is\nnegative\/pessimistic regarding your future, relationships or everyday\nsituations<\/li><li>You keep reliving a traumatic\nevent (death, robbery, rape etc)<\/li><li>You worry a lot<\/li><li>You hear or see things that\nothers are unable to<\/li><li>People have expressed concern\nover your recent actions<\/li><li>You self-harm or are\nconsidering suicide<\/li><li>You are thinking about\nphysically hurting someone else<\/li><li>You have a high stress job that\nis affecting your behavior and\/or sleep<\/li><li>You feel sad for an\nextended\/abnormally long period of time <\/li><li>You feel anxious or nervous for\nan extended\/abnormally long period of time <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The above is just a few of the signs that should prompt you to seek out a therapist, but there are many more. At the end of the day, most times we as individuals know when we are not in a good place mentally and while sometimes a little time is all we need, other times we just need a little push to get back on the right track. Seeing your therapist could be that greatly needed push. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly Mc Farlane  <br>Clinical Psychologist, Organisational Psychologist <br>Public Relations Officer, TTAP October, 2019 <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s probably best to start by addressing the false notion that visiting a psychologist should be limited to only critical points of your life, some sort of personal crisis or when there is a buildup of emotion that is nearing a dysfunctional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologytt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}