I'm mostly confused by what you were expecting, but maybe that's related to your in-the-moment frustration. What were you expecting that left you so frustrated?
If you see a general counselor or OT, you get general lifestyle advice and help. If you need treatment for the mental equivalent of a gaping chest wound, you go see a psychiatrist and/or consider inpatient care at a psychiatric hospital. There's nothing wrong with either, they just cater to different levels of needs.
On cooking: I would personally say the problem lies less with cooking guides and more with your lack of interest in spending time with the subject. Most worthwhile activities do require some level of time investment. You can avoid spending time by either a) outsourcing to professionals at a price, ie eating out or b) minimise the time spent by cutting corners, ie microwave meals. Try to find something basic that you can practice with, like making the sauce for your noodles from scratch, which doesn't necessarily require many ingredients and you can experiment with.
Over time, the mental effort required to do such things decreases once you've made them a habit, like showering, washing the dishes, doing your laundry, that kind of thing.
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I wasn't sure what to expect or what I even wanted; that was a big part of what I talked about with this person. Much of my frustration comes from this lack of clarity regarding a path forward, because it's not simple. Do I learn how to better cope with the promotion side of games dev, and tackle the related trauma? Or do I revise my life entirely and go and do some 'normal' job, if I even can? There are pros and cons of both.
I approached my GP and said I needed mental health help, and he had me see this person, perhaps because I'd mentioned to him that I wasn't working a traditional job and he - being in a hard-to-achieve line of work himself - probably saw that as something that absolutely needed to be fixed right away. Or maybe they had no more suitable options available, I don't know. This is a small surgery in a little seaside town, after all, not some big city hospital.
Re cooking, yes, I don't have any interest in cooking, that's the point. Trying to find something basic has been the challenge which has always resulted in frustration. Like if --someone wanted to learn music composition and knew nothing, but all the tutorials for 'beginners' assumed I had the right software, instrument, and knew what a bIV7 chord was. I've never been able to find anything that assumes zero understanding and experience because they're always written by people with a lot of both who just take many things for granted and make assumptions.
I suppose drawing tutorials were like that, actually, but I pushed through because that's something I actually wanted to be able to do. I really can't stress enough how little I'd want to cook, though, and I don't get why people seem to not get it.
Actually, I suppose it's exactly the same as the complete aversion I have towards building my own PC... which people who do know how do that and enjoy it never seem to get either. Just like how I don't get how people are resistant to learning about personality psychology, I suppose, and I just get frustrated that they don't see it as interesting and useful as it clearly seems to be to me.
If you see a general counselor or OT, you get general lifestyle advice and help. If you need treatment for the mental equivalent of a gaping chest wound, you go see a psychiatrist and/or consider inpatient care at a psychiatric hospital. There's nothing wrong with either, they just cater to different levels of needs.
On cooking: I would personally say the problem lies less with cooking guides and more with your lack of interest in spending time with the subject. Most worthwhile activities do require some level of time investment. You can avoid spending time by either a) outsourcing to professionals at a price, ie eating out or b) minimise the time spent by cutting corners, ie microwave meals. Try to find something basic that you can practice with, like making the sauce for your noodles from scratch, which doesn't necessarily require many ingredients and you can experiment with.
Over time, the mental effort required to do such things decreases once you've made them a habit, like showering, washing the dishes, doing your laundry, that kind of thing.
I approached my GP and said I needed mental health help, and he had me see this person, perhaps because I'd mentioned to him that I wasn't working a traditional job and he - being in a hard-to-achieve line of work himself - probably saw that as something that absolutely needed to be fixed right away. Or maybe they had no more suitable options available, I don't know. This is a small surgery in a little seaside town, after all, not some big city hospital.
Re cooking, yes, I don't have any interest in cooking, that's the point. Trying to find something basic has been the challenge which has always resulted in frustration. Like if --someone wanted to learn music composition and knew nothing, but all the tutorials for 'beginners' assumed I had the right software, instrument, and knew what a bIV7 chord was. I've never been able to find anything that assumes zero understanding and experience because they're always written by people with a lot of both who just take many things for granted and make assumptions.
I suppose drawing tutorials were like that, actually, but I pushed through because that's something I actually wanted to be able to do. I really can't stress enough how little I'd want to cook, though, and I don't get why people seem to not get it.
Actually, I suppose it's exactly the same as the complete aversion I have towards building my own PC... which people who do know how do that and enjoy it never seem to get either. Just like how I don't get how people are resistant to learning about personality psychology, I suppose, and I just get frustrated that they don't see it as interesting and useful as it clearly seems to be to me.