It doesn’t sound silly. I think it’s quite normal to feel worried/nervous/stressed about speaking to a dr for the first time (or even if it’s not the first time) about mental health challenges.
I just read your other thread and it sounds like there’s some anxiety about what to tell the dr and how to say it?
It depends on what you want to share.
You could go in with a ‘I’m not really feeling myself, I feel quite low’ and go from there. Dr will likely ask more questions to understand that better. You may be asked how long you’ve felt like that, whether anything has happened to cause the low mood, whether you are thinking about hurting yourself etc. These would be pretty standard questions. Dr may ask you some of the other questions you’ve already completed online.
If you go that route and want some antidepressants to try (which is what it sounded like in your earlier post), I suspect that will probably be what you get - a prescription for an initial diagnosis of depression/anxiety.
It’s up to you whether you want to reveal your historical trauma at this point with this person. If you don’t reveal it, I doubt they will be looking at diagnosing/treating anything other than depression/low mood and possibly anxiety.
Not sure that GPs tend to diagnose much beyond that anyway, but perhaps someone else will know more than me on that.
I think you’re right in that you need some distractions between now and your appt. what do you already know works? What do you like doing? Who do you like being around? What feels calming/soothing/relaxing for you? If you search this site for grounding techniques or grounding tools, you will find lots of ideas that may be helpful for you as you wait for your appt.
