Posted by Creature on January 25, 2002, at 0:05:14
Haven’t seen abbreviations here so...
T - therapist or therapy
Pdoc - psychiatristDiagnosis: major depression disorder w/ psychosis, PTSD, (self-injury too) Depersonalization Disorder, and depending on my current T possibly Borderline Personality Disorder (2 said I have it and 2 said I don't)...in two yrs I've had 4 T's because county mental health doesn't pay much, therapists often don't stay long, 3 of mine quit...the last one I changed
I've fought this battle w/County Mental Health for a year now, thought I had finally gotten somewhere
About a year ago, I went to my then Pdoc said I want an evaluation done, it was at a large teaching hospital (live in a very rural area) since I am getting no where, we've exhausted the medication options and T isn't working...He fully agreed with, said that hospital was a least a year ahead of here, he encouraged me to do so
History: 2 psych hospitalizations, every class of antidepressants have been tried and various combinations of, including MAOI's, and Topamax, lithium, Neurontin, tripletail, provigil,
And I am on several medications for other medical conditions
They only I got those meds was by doing online searches, bring in all the data to my Pdoc...rant and rave at him until I finally get it
I get SSI for all the above goodiesI cannot change to a different place for treatment; no other place will take my insurance
Well, I did...they made a recommendation for a specific type of therapy...DBT
I have an ICM (intensive case manager), Lura.... Lura said they have an excellent therapist in the other office does DBT, she's very experienced with your type of problems.... I meet with the T, really felt comfortable with her, we set up a month of apt, since I would have to drive 45 miles to see, though it would still be in the same agencyClinical Coordinator wrote me letter, said no you can't do that, you have stay here and work with your current T...the Pdoc that had encouraged me to get the evaluation had left the agency
I fought the ruling, so did my ICM.... big flat NOCounty mental health got a new clinical coordinator, Mike...I knew him, he was my former family therapist...and knew him to be very open minded
Mike called after office hrs on his day off, said he would look into it further
A week later his ruling came...YES! You can see the new TAngela, new T, got on the phone to tell me she hasn't received authorization for me to see her yet, she knew nothing about it, my records haven't been sent and they are supposed to sent a transfer statement, she tells me to call the local office where I was in treatment
So I do that, nope nothing has been sent out...they tell me Mike, Clinical Coordinator is out w/an emergency won't be back until next week, they weren't even sure he'd be back thenThen they told me because I didn't have an appt in Jan (you're required to have a minimum of an appt every 30 days) my case would be closed and would have to make an appt for an intake and start all over again %&$#@!
I was so fed up; I just hung up the phone
I called Lura, she's says I can fight it because it was there goof up
Seems my old T, Ellen made sure to tell me that, I asked her for an appt to hold me off and avoid an intake...she refusedAlso Lura, intensive case manager, starts her vacation this coming up Monday...for 2 weeks....... no T, no Pdoc, and no Lura for at least 2 weeks probably longer, though I can use the crisis line, yeah right last time I used it took them an hour to call me back and then I was put on hold
I just cry and sob so tired of fighting this
CreatureWhat difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
~Tony Morrison, The Song of Solomon.
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