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Originally Posted by Marty_S
Any oral questionnaire is worse.
If it's in writing I at least have time to sit back and think about my answers.
You can't ask someone with anxiety to take an oral questionnaire on the fly like that. That's just going to stress them exponentially more than they already are.
While a written exam requires concentration, you at least have the luxury of time and a BACK button.
I am looking into a new clinic that seems to be able to offer more support. I have pretty much given up on my doctor at this point.
I am just shocked that there isn't more examples or guidance on the www for this sort of thing. I can't even find one example claim to work from.
I can write and write, but I would rather know i am including what the insurance company wants to hear and excluding anything that may be a waste of time or detrimental to the claim.
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one time I was having writing reading problems due to medications, I had to fill in insurance forms. I called in and explained the problem. I also have anxiety. so I explained that to them. they were fantastic. they put me in a room where it didnt matter how long it took to fill out the forms and the person asking me the questions was great. she asked the question, gave me plenty of time to think about the answer and if I asked her to she would repeat the question. I remember this one question she would ask me it, write my answer and I would say ok read that back to me please. she would and I made changes and then thought a bit more and said can you read that back to me please she did and I made changes. this went on for a good 15-20 minutes on just that one question. afterwards I thanked her for all the time she took with me and that I was a bit embarrassed. she said ...."no problem, working with you is and your problem topped with anxiety is just like working with a blind person. sometimes it can take many hours for the process but its our job to take this time and help the client through the process in a calm non rushed way that fits their disability, your disability at the moment is reading, writing and test taking anxiety, nothing we cant handle, in fact we handle this every day with the disabled."
Im sorry this process wont work for you,my post wasnt meant to upset you, it was more to tell you that thanks to the disability law there is help for filling out forms, only you can decide if its something you want to do. for me it was well worth it and less stressful then trying to do the forms on my own.
since you dont want to go this route, the only other choices that I can see that you may have is...
contact your treatment providers so that they can help you (since you posted your treatment provider is not able to do this then all thats left is....
do them on your own
reveal to a friend what the insurance form are so that they can help you
unfortunately here we cant help you fill in the forms because we are not you, we dont know what your disabilities actually are in full detail, by this I mean we dont have your medical and mental health records so we dont have the full picture of what your problems are, what your treatments are, what your past history of medical and mental problems are....all that kinds of things that you may need to consider when filling out the forms. only you know what's what. the forms want you and your problems not what people on psych central think based on a few posts. so that leaves you and your friends, unless you choose to contact the insurance company or your treatment providers.