Time to finally see a therapist or what is the difference?!

Time to finally see a therapist or what is the difference?

Okay, first thing is first. I've had a combo of low self esteem my entire life as well as other things. For example, I remember I was mad at my brain for communicating too many ideas. Now it seems that's migrated to my uterus. :| Other issues include, not satisfied with gender (on occasion,) general frustration, I suppose the typical feelings of never quite achieving enough, even though I have successfully reached a number of my goals. It is one of those things that comes and goes, but I do know that I have difficulty acknowledging my feelings as appropriate or inappropriate in certain cases. I've also had anxiety attacks before, but this is sporadic but has reoccurred for years.

Anyway, I was wondering if a therapist would be able to help me lessen such feelings and such? I've made progress myself, but I think I'd like help and ready for it. Would there be anything special I would look for or anyone have personal experience in seeing such a person could share said experience? Thanks.

3 weeks ago
Ah, somaticizing. New word, love new words. Yeah, I developed chronic shoulder pain for about a year and a half from what I believe was mostly stress induced. It sort of felt like my bone wanted to escape through my skin. But, it a lot less frequent now though, which believe me, makes me one happy cookie.

Hi,
We all have occasional downs. As they say, one out of every three years will be bad, and taking this into account helps keep some things in perspective, and know that the bad times will pass, and better days will, no doubt, show up at some point.
It is up to you to decide if the frequency of your frustration is too much to take or not. Try to coolly evaluate whether your feelings are associated with particular occurrences, or just come to you out of the blue... Are you somatizing things that happen in your life, or do you have abrupt mood swings?
It takes little effort to try a therapist or psychiatrist out, if you feel you may get any comfort from them, and it's definitely better to see how it goes than to sit and wonder.
Good luck.