Pertubuhan Befrienders Ipoh Perak — Local services in Perak

From my experience, the volunteers are okay for venting and stuff. But if you need any kind of advice or solutions, no. They don't really give you advice. Instead they would ask you repeatedly about "how can you be better, how do you think you can handle this etc" and when i shared about how my mental health is affecting my focus, they said i just need to be more passionate and determine about what I'm doing then I will get the focus back?? As if I'm not trying? I don't even determined to be alive how do i be determined to do my tasks? I tried though, But I still couldn't. So it breaks my heart a little when she told me that. As if I'm not trying my best to get my tasks done :') And they were too busy praising me instead of focusing on my problems. Ofc I would love to be praised but read the room(?) I'm sharing and ranting about my mental health issues and you go like "your English is so good" Hello?? 😭😅 How does that makes any sense? And they also said I sound cheerful. Well thank you, I was faking because I have social anxiety and I laugh things off to make it less awkward even tho it'll just be more awkward that way. Don't they remember that mental health issues can be in a lot of forms? People can look and sound happy yet still dead on the inside :( This might be the last...

if you wish to vent only, go ahead. they will listen. however if you want a solution to your problems, not recommended. I repeatedly asked "how am I supposed to cope with this?" but they either dodged the question or changed to another topic. moreover, irrelevant questions were asked. it wasn't helpful to me at all, honestly. they also asked whether I knew how to overcome my situation or not and when I said I didn't, they didn't give an answer as well. if I knew how to deal with it, I wouldn't have made the call. I wouldn't have asked. it was a bad experience for me but nonetheless, I'm grateful that befriender lent an ear and let me pour out...

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