Posted by hiba on August 30, 2002, at 23:51:47
In reply to NHS maddness, posted by Arthur Gibson on August 30, 2002, at 4:04:30
Dear Arthur,
It makes me relieved, your suicidal tendencies are on the way of vanishing. I can understand it because I have gone through that period. If you are still on prozac, may be prozac is begining to kick in. Anyway stick with it until your doc comes back.
It is amazing to me, health care systems of a developed nation like UK is so hopeless. I am an Indian now staying in Middle East. There is no health insurance system in India but you can buy twenty capsules of prozac for one sterling pound. If you want to change your doc you can do it within minutes and see another doc. If you want to get admitted in a private psychiatric hospital, it is only a matter of your consent. Once when I revealed my suicidal tendencies to a psychiatrist, he begged to me to get admitted in his or any other hospital in the city. When I refused to get admitted he gave me two options. Take huge doses of xanax or go for an ECT. The first one was fair and I took 5 mg of xanax daily for the next couple of weeks to allow elavil to kick in. After two weeks xanax gradually withdrawn and am kept on elavil. Xanax helped me tremendously at that time. (Taking huge doses will have its own problems) But when it is a matter of life or death, the great Indian psychiatrists never hesitate or compromise. I am proud of my nation's health care system, though there can be enough drawbacks. Patients have their choice here. I never felt hopeless or helpless even when I was under major depression.I don't understand why the developed countries impose such restrictions on patients.
HIBA
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