5 Signs you might need therapy

How do you feel today? Do you know? Is your default response that you're fine?

Most of us don't know how we feel. We haven't learned to stop and check in with ourselves and to fulfill any emotional needs and mental health challenges before things get serious. This is largely because we live in a faced paced world with demanding work schedules, busy personal lives, young families without wider family support and more. We're told we can have it all, and we really want it all but at what personal cost?

Therapy isn't just for the moment that you can't go on, that you've isolated yourself from friends and family, when you don't go out except to work, you live in dark rooms and watch tv on repeat, if you lay in bed all weekend crying or when you're broken, when you're anxious, depressed or stressed.

What if you don't have to wait? What if talking to someone today change your current situation for a positive experience?

Here are 5 unexpected signs you might need therapy

1. You hide away from people you know.

2. You wake up and have no energy.

3. At the end of every working week you spend your weekend recovering from the week.

4. You have no interest in your personal life.

5. You spend too much time on social media.

When you go out with friends and family do you talk about yourself? Do you tell your friends and family about your day, problems, challenges? Do you talk? When we get really fed up with our own lives we can stop talking about it.

Do you wake up in the morning and have zero desire to get out of bed, go to work, interact with anyone. We all can have this somedays but it is unusual to have it day after day. What is causing this?

Where is your energy going? Does your energy go into creating your life and future or do you invest all your energy into working for someone else? What are your energy levels at the end of the working week - low, medium, high?

Do you go out with friends? Do you phone, message and text friends? Are you spending time socialising? Are you withdrawing?

Social media is addictive, it allows people to present the best version of themselves or a very subjective view. When we feel unhappy with ourselves and our lives we can look online at other peoples worlds as better than ours when quite of often they aren't even real.

Be honest with yourself is the first step. Are you happy? Would you benefit from talking to a CBT therapist in an open and non judgement space? More information here.