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Originally Posted by Moreta
Duke is a good hospital. I was at their psych ward in 2010 for 9 days. I'm about 2 hrs west of it. In most of the major cities in NC they have PHP and IOP programs. There's 2 places in Winston and a couple in Greensboro. Not sure where you're at in NC though. East of Raleigh things get sparse. There might be something in Greenville. IDK much about eastern NC though. I just know my mother in law lives in bellhaven by the coast. I've only lived in Winston, Greensboro, Kernersville, and in Stokesdale out in the sticks. lol.
Definitely ask your pdoc about it though, he would know more about services offered in your area. I think you need a referral anyways for insurance purposes.
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Oh that is good to know! I was trying to find IOP but wasn’t having luck Googling info. I find info about substance abuse IOPs, but I don’t have a substance abuse problem. Right now we do live in eastern NC (which I hate) but we are planning to move back to Greensboro this year!
Hopefully over the summer.
We moved to Greensboro in 2003 when I got a job right after I left grad school, and stayed until the summer of 2015, when I moved to work at a different state agency here in my hometown. Different state agency, but essentially the same job, because my job in Greensboro was getting reclassified into a totally new position. Absolutely loved the heart of my job (conducting developmental assessments on young children), but could not take being so understaffed, stressed, with no flexibility. My bipolar disorder was getting worse, so I got the courage to call in sick once when I needed a “mental health day”, and the entire assessment team literally fell apart. We were all doing assessments, nearly everyday, in multiple counties, and so short-staffed, it ripped a hole in the fabric of the universe when I couldn’t show up one day. That was unbelievably stressful. My illness kept getting worse, and two hospitalizations later I was unable to go back to work. I just cannot take being in a city I hate, with poor psychiatric care, and family that provides no emotional support. I’m not working my job, any work my husband can find will be home-based, so I have no reason to be here. I can’t wait to hopefully move back to the city I call my real home, with access to better care, either there or at Wake Forest if needed.
At any rate, thanks for that info, I will look into any options I can find when we move back to Greensboro. I know the environment I’m in now is detrimental to my well-being, and I love Greensboro. But I also know moving is not going to cure my illness. I was in Greensboro when I was diagnosed and spent many years there afterwards. So I’m glad there are supports like that there.