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Old Aug 11, 2004, 08:06 PM
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Hi all. I went to that appointment today, where I was referred to by ORS. Turns out the spacey caseworker at ORS gave me only the referral for vocational guiadance type stuff. She forgot to add for additional ones like housing, etc, like she originally said she'd do. She told me nothing in advance about what today's appointment would be, so I assumed that this appointment would be for a little everything. Now the person I talked to today has to talk to my ORS caseworker to get a new plan and goals. Meanwhile, the person I talked to today set up a meeting for me tomorrow with their intake person. This intake person will be the start for me to have (I think, if I understand correctly) a formal psych evaluation, get meds (they seem to push a preference for meds already at this point), be assigned a bed/place to live. I know they have several different types of housing or residential facilties. This whole place is a respected psych hospital/care network. I'm still kind of nervous about all of this. Plus, I've never been on psych meds before, and I'm concerned about related side effects. This is going so slow. I wish I just new what the outcome was after just one appointment, maybe two. Now it seems that I've got several more ahead of me.

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