Posted by Penny on October 24, 2003, at 8:01:10
In reply to DBT skills manual, posted by Penny on October 23, 2003, at 14:05:22
Okay - I DID call the DBT therapist yesterday and left her a voice mail, and she called me back yesterday afternoon. We talked for a while and she seems really nice. They accept new patients each time they start studying a new module, so the soonest I could join would be 3-4 weeks from now, which is okay. It would be Monday evenings, which works well for me as it is currently my only free night of the week.
My biggest reserve right now is that I just don't think I can afford it. It would be covered by insurance but it would be $100 for the initial consult with the T and $60 a session, which I would have to pay upfront and then get reimbursed b/c they don't file for you (unlike my dear, darling therapist). I told my T last night that I knew I couldn't fork over that money and then wait to get reimbursed - I just don't have the money for that - and she said, "Did you ASK her if they could work out a payment option for you?" She's thinking that perhaps I could pay them what insurance doesn't cover each week and then pay them the rest as soon as I get reimbursed from insurance. She said I would, of course, need to set up a schedule for filing for insurance, and I guess that makes me nervous too, as I am terribly unorganized and that just seems like such an ominous task. But, I told her I would call the DBT T back and ask. Don't know if that will happen TODAY or not...
Haven't really had a chance to look through the books yet, so no comment on them. Except that I took them to therapy last night and she said that was a very 'me' (using my name) way of deciding if it was something I wanted to pursue - she seems amused sometimes at my relentless researching of things I am interested in. If ONLY I could be that interested in other things - like, maybe, WORK??? yeah, sure...
P
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