Pam did talk to her supervisor and they are going to assign someone else for me. Her supervisor said it would be easiest to just have Mike finish the paperwork since he is the one who started it, but Pam is going to come with him to see me and we will only do paperwork and not talk about goals with him. I told Pam what my goals are and she and her supervisor are going to get me started in the "peer support" program. A peer support person is someone who has a mental illness but is stable and doing well now, and they have to go through a long training process to become a peer support. She will come visit me, take me out into the community, help me find recreation or support groups and go with me if I want her to. The other goal is to help me find a therapist which will help with 2 goals: seeing someone to work on issues with and to talk to, and to help me learn to follow a schedule without becoming overwhelmed. I will start by going every other week and when I feel comfortable with following that schedule, then I will try to go every week if I think I need to. So we are going to get those started in a couple of weeks. After I think I've met those goals or I am comfortable adding a new one, I will let them know and we will decide on how to meet any new goals at that time, and not worry about them right now. Just focusing on what I'm working on at the moment!

thinker...I agree; I don't see how people can think that having to be on disability makes us happy in any way. And he was wrong to say that people who are on disability have too much time on their hands and just sit and think about their problems! Sure, there are days that I am thinking about them because I'm in the middle of an episode, but there are days when I'm feeling stable and have low anxiety, and on those days I don't just sit around and think about my illnesses. I read, play computer games, watch tv or a movie, etc. And hopefully with this program I will meet new friends in a recreation group or support group and I will have people to do things with on the days I'm feeling good.

Thanks again everyone!!