That's a tough one. My mental health team and I were at the point of firing one another when one of the pdoc's in the practice agreed to see me once every two months for 15 minutes to write my scripts. My PCP didn't mind writing the scripts but he believed that I needed to continue the therapy. We just started this new routine at the end of April and I don't know if it will work or not.

Things are so much different now than they were 31 years ago. Back then and through my hospitalisation I saw pdocs for 50 minutes and they provided therapy and meds. I'm still not comfortable with (what I started with) a Ph.D. Psychologist therapist and a nurse practitioner prescribing meds.

I haven't experienced any sort of "plan" coming from anyone. No goals, nothing. I talk to my therapist (usually) every two weeks, as he sleeps, and my mental health continues to get more and more bizarre and hopeless and I'm going up and down with no help in sight.

It seems as if no US State has anything in common with another in treating mental illness and I leave my therapist feeling much worse than when I entered.

It's crazy, man. Crazy.