Posted by syringachalet on March 5, 2003, at 22:33:00
In reply to A Psychiatrist?? » syringachalet, posted by Jack Smith on March 5, 2003, at 19:53:23
I am both a psych rehab nurse RN/BSN and a PTSD survivor.
I work with mental healthcenter in an outpatient capacity and because I have been on both sides of the counseling arrangment can often empathize with those who are struggling daily just to "keep their heads above water" while living out in the community.
I remember days past before our dear Ronald Regan and his programs where mental health was to be free and community based. Thats also when Bill Gates was still just some prep young man with a really big dream about computers.
Back in the 1970s, Thorazine, Stelezine, Elavil and Merrill were common and we were being very progressive because they no longer used insulin therapy to calm people in institutions like they did in the 1950s.
We even sedated people during ECT.Now we have new drugs coming out that are so expensive that some people are having to decide between eating or taking their meds as prescribed.
Now there are so many hurdles to jump to help patients get their meds so they can keep that chemical balance in check I some times think does the ears know what the tail is doing.
With the avg cost of $60,000/yr/patient keeping them out of state owned institutional care and in the community, maybe more people should be telling their state elected representatives to pass that Medicare medication bill ASAP.Psychiatrist... me? I think not.
Bill Cosby said it best...
I know the boss. I know her job.
And I dont want it. LOLsyringachalet
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