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Originally Posted by Altarian
I won't say "sorry you are suffering" because enough people have already said that and eventually it's just lip service and has no meaning to us anymore. I understand to a degree the feeling you have with 20 minute phone call is suppose to solve everything. With the clinic i go to for medical their idea of mental health is getting put on a waiting list for a teletherapist that if you are lucky you will get to have a half hour video session once a month. mean while as you wait you get to meet with one of the two unqualified councilors once a week. Mental health is a world wide disease that the world is not willing to handle because it's not one of the "cool deadly" ones like AIDS/HIV, Cancer, or whatnot.
But luckily or not we all have this site to try and help each other since the "professionals" are nonexistent at times.
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Thank you for sharing this. It does hurt to come to the end of a long journey (2.5 years) and a lot of research and trial and error...and to realize that there is not that much help out there. It is complex. I am a writer and I would like to start writing about my experience. Especially for friends and family of those who are suffering. But maybe for health care providers, too. And finally, for those of us who suffer, perhaps we need to raise our voices and be heard.
I read a story about a woman who went to my particular health care provider although she was in a different state. She was jacked around...taken off one AD...put on another...then taken off that and put back on the original...etc. And all with weeks and weeks of not being able to be seen by a pdoc. Well, one morning she drove to the health care provider facility and jumped to her death off their parking garage. A needless wasteful tragic death that left her husband and children reeling.
This story affected me because it was an older woman who was struggling...and all the medication changes probably greatly contributed to her suicide. Her care was inadequate.
As we get older medications act differently in our bodies.
Well, I will stay unmedicated and find a way to get well.