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Old Jun 24, 2015, 11:42 PM
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Some home health agencies will provide in-home psych care. Combined with IOP it can help people stay home with a a lot of extra support. For example I remember people who had IOP every day (and IOP there provided transportation so there was also bus time), then psych nursing 2-3 days per week for an hour or so each time, me for 2 hours per week and possibly others (medical nursing, social work often, PT occasionally) each for an hour or two a week. They could set up pill boxes that worked automatically to keep people safe from overdoses and provide general support and structure. IT wasn't all the time and people certainly needed more care than we provided but it was a pretty full schedule. The company I did this through was Amedisys; I have no idea if other home health companies offer as comprehensive psych services although logically some must since it's pretty lucrative although staffing intense so less lucrative now that I think about it. Probably not very much at all in fact. But we still did it.

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How are you now? I know it has been a little while since your OP.

I have wondered often if it would be possible to do like a fake hospital at home situation. Which I guess basically would just be not being left alone. I don't know what else really. But is that possible. Can you just not ever be alone? And at work could you like have to text your husband every 30 mins or something to say you are ok. I don't know. I know that stuff isn't going to help you with the symptoms you are enduring but I just want you safe as do we all. Like maybe just try to set up some ways to keep you from yourself.

Oh and maybe cut out on as many stresses besides your job as possible....like paper plates etc. I don't know. I'm sorry if this is totally annoying unhelpful. I'm trying to think of what I would do. And yeah geez it just sucks so bad.

I'm just so sorry.

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