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Originally Posted by dark_heart_x
I'm not on medications because I have horrible insurance and it costs a whole cart of groceries to get in to see a psychiatirst. I was only on Lithium for about 6 months after diagnosis, that was a year before I got pregnant. And I kept forgetting to take them until I forgot all together. By then I couldn't get back in and then I was pregnant, so I just didn't bother.
I was diagnosed 3 years ago, was on lamictle for two weeks and I got a rash (which is dangerous) and then Lithium, after that nothing. I get 3 free visits to psychologist every year but not a pdoc. That's why my diagnosis is so weird. My old psychologist worked with me until she retired, now I need to find a new one.
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I am so sorry to hear that you don't have access to medications or to a psychiatrist. That is truly horrible. I wouldn't be alive without both. Are there no programs in your state that provide psychiatric care for those without insurance? If not, maybe there are individual psychiatrists who will provide compassionate care on a case-by-case basis? I'm sure you've looked in to the options but my heart goes out to anyone suffering with this disease because they don't have access to treatments that work.