Thank you for your thoughtful post. I know that the post that you made was on the longer side, but I liked reading what you had to say, even though I think it's sad that what you said about the world that we live in today is very true. There's no question that there are a lot of problems in today's world, and if my own experience is any indicator, it can be hard to avoid feeling quite helpless when we live in a world where at least some of the problems that face us keep getting worse when we have mental health problems that are sometimes either not helped (at least in any significant way) or made worse by the main treatment options that mental health professionals offer us. I know that what I'm about to say might not sound like much, but if there's anything that I'd suggest, it would be to keep trying different treatments (including possibly different approaches to treatment) until you find something that you find to be at least reasonably helpful. The above poster mentioned alternative medicine as an option to consider, and I'm going to add to what was said by saying that even though the treatment plan that I follow now has some limitations that aren't insignificant, the results that I'm getting from following a treatment plan that I'd say draws more heavily from alternative medicine than it does from other approaches to the treatment of mental health conditions are better than the results that I had from utilizing more conventional treatments, especially in the long term.
The clinics that you mentioned might not be an option if they're the clinics that I think that you're referring to (those run by a psychiatrist with the initials of D.A.), because I've at least read in the past that his clinics don't accept insurance. But it's possible that this might have changed, assuming that the clinics that you referred to are the ones that I have in mind, so you might want to check with them to get a definitive answer to the question of whether or not they accept insurance. But even if getting seen at the clinics that you mentioned in your post isn't an option for you, there might be some qualified professionals near you who at least incorporate alternative mental health treatments into their practice that you'd be able to afford seeing. It's hard to know for sure how helpful you might find alternative approaches to treating your depression to be, as some alternative treatments have more evidence to support their use than others. But if you've tried a good number of conventional treatments with little to no success, trying something other than medication and talk therapy (or maybe a different form of talk therapy) might be something to consider.
So to conclude, I'd have to say that if there's anything that I'd recommend to you, it would be that even though everything that you've been trying to your improve your situation hasn't been affecting your outcome for the better, taking a different approach to treating your depression (or maybe to trying to overcome other problems that you're faced with) might lead to an outcome that you'll find to be better than the outcomes that you've been getting from the approaches to treatment that you've tried up to this point. Alternative medicine might not necessarily be the best approach for you, but I think that trying something that's different from what you've been trying is something that would be worth considering. Regardless as to what you end up doing, though, I hope that you'll have at least some success in overcoming your mental health issues and any other problems that you're currently faced with. Take care.
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