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Old Aug 19, 2009, 09:30 PM
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Thank you all.
My university doesn't have any mental health insurance and they are not willing to help me. The fin aid person asked me why I was moving to go to school and why I gave up my job?(except that I'm moving tomorrow and have no other place to live and no job) She was miliseconds away from saying that I just shouldn't come. She only didn't say it because at the same moment I burst into tears. She told me that I had taken too long to look into this (though I didn't find out I got in until the end of May, and have talked to the fin aid office multiple times since then) . People can get their aid raised because they live far away from campus, or because they need money for child care. But I can't get any extra funds for mental health care. Even though it says on their website that funds can be added for unreimbursed medical expenses. They said that I would have to get it declared as a disability to get any help. (instead of them just including it in their health insurance in the first place) I am fine with treatment and meds. I don't have a dissability. If it is treated it is fine. If not, well lets just not go there. I just feel so awful. I am planning on getting a job, but that doesn't help me until I can get one that will fit around my class schedule. And no I can't get a job on campus. I thought I would be fine because I would have school insurance and it would be a group policy, however, it isn't and so I'm not.
Thanks for this!
ADHD1956, depressedalaskan