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Originally Posted by *Laurie*
I'm fine with you posting about the miserable situation you're battling through. What I find frustrating is that what I'm hearing is that you place responsibility for just about every issue you're having on some one or something else. I truly give you credit for taking charge and taking the steps you've taken these past couple of days to make appointments, etc. That said, fair or not, yours is not a special case; to the bureaucracy you have to currently be involved with, there are thousands of other people who also need help. If you have to wait on the phone for an hour, well, that's how it is. At some point in life we all have to accept that we are not a special snowflake; we're just another person in need of help. Since no one will do the work for us, part of being an adult is that we have to do the work ourselves.
Can you can be online while waiting on the phone to help the time pass? Watch something on TV? Read a book? It seems like you need to find the time to deal with what you need to deal with, because it's a top priority.
What about your husband? Where is he in all of this? Since he's also your daughter's parent, can he be more involved with your care because doing so would ultimately benefit your daughter?
I'm just tossing some of my thoughts out there. btw, have you considered that doing a sleep study at this time might not be the best idea, considering everything you're going through?
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----Yes, we have to pay our dues and make the effort to get help. However, because of my disorder, sometimes if Im having an episode I literally can't think (tho I faked my way through working for just short of 50 years) and there are plenty of people worse off than I am sitting there trying to keep it together during a long wait-addicts, alcoholics, schizophrenics, you name it. There are some flaws in the system. This reminds me of the story my former recovered alcoholic partner told me about a time when he was suicidal and called Kaiser. They told him to call them back in 2 weeks. LOL We need to use the buddy system more, I think, and thank God for this forum. Right now I think of Blueberrybook as a representation of the things many of us are going through, except she is going through a lot of those things at one time, which is so often the case in life. Things tend to spiral. We'll help her through it and then she will help us.