Posted by Pfinstegg on January 7, 2005, at 0:45:32
In reply to Re: Cool U.S. cities ... » Pfinstegg, posted by alexandra_k on January 7, 2005, at 0:07:49
Oh, I see. So you would have your International Coverage, plus the regular US University Health Service, I hope I'm wrong, but I feel the therapists might not be good enough, or be able to see you often enough, at our university health services. they are not very well funded, and tend to concentrate more on medication.
I do think the analytic institutes are a very good bet. I think it's truly nominal- even as little as a dollar or two per session. The cost is covered by the Institutes, and patients are only required to pay *something* to demonstrate their seriousness and commitment.
We have thousands and thousands of foreign students here, and they seem to manage in all sorts of ways. Many grad students become teaching assistants or tutors in the summer schools which all the universities have. People share low-cost housing with quite a few other people- perhaps more people than they'd like, but it does keep the cost down. You'll have advisors who can help you solve these sorts of problems- finding university housing, getting jobs that you can do comfortably.
How awful to call a BPD specialist and get such rude, rejecting treatment! That may not be the right diagnosis for you, either- not that diagnoses have much value, but I think a dissociatiive disorder fits a lot better from what you have posted here. Even with BPD, the prognosis is getting better all the time, as therapists learn how to treat it; it also has the very nice feature that people tend to grow out of it in their thirties as they mature! But DID has an even better prognosis with the right treatment. You know, it's just a pathological way of dealing with unbearable stress and trauma- besides that, there is a whole lot of healthy personality- which tends to get high-jacked by the different ego and feeling states.
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