Thanks for understanding, here today.
No, as you say my counselor couldnīt deal with me being disappointed and she didnīt want to talk about anything that concerned her and her actions. I think she perhaps was told to keep a distance to me so I wouldnīt get attached and she thought she perhaps could just cancel appointments, shift appointment times and so on without me reacting to that.
Yes, the unspoken "rule" about not being allowed to say no to treatment isnīt something they tell clients straight out. But a lot of people have experienced this and the facilities use this against you, as a way of cutting patients off from care.
I donīt know if my psychiatrist and her colleague have actually begun to look through my records so Iīll wait for some time to see what happens. Perhaps my counselor will call me to tell me what they have decided but Iīm not sure I'll answer to her call.
Thereīs an ombudsman to whom you can file complaints but they canīt decide what treatment you get. They only help patients in writing complaints and getting an answer from the facility about what they think happened in the actual case.
Thanks, I appreciate you hoping this for me!
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From what you have written here, you have been having difficulties with this counselor for some time. If it were therapy, people could say you were "stuck". It also seem like this counselor hasn't had anything much to offer to help you -- or the two of you -- through these difficulties. Perhaps that is more than she is trained to do?
Nevertheless. . .I don't see you as saying "no" to treatment. You have asked for someone else to talk to, at least temporarily.
An "unspoken rule" is. . .confusing to people, to say the least. Since it is a public health facility, it seems to me like it is only fair that you have some explicit rules, from someone, if they are going to terminate you.
If you don't hear from them early next week, I would encourage you to follow up with your request to see somebody else temporarily. Or, if they terminate you, I would encourage you to ask to speak to your psychiatrist again or perhaps the director of the facility, to get an explicit reason why they are letting you go. It may be difficult to read or to hear, but especially if any of their reasons are NOT sound and if they did not make their rules explicit to you FROM THE BEGINNING (as it sounds like may be the case) then perhaps there may be some kind of recourse, somewhere, if you want it. Perhaps a government ombudsman somewhere in the system. Or maybe somewhere outside it.
Wishing you the best!! I hope, of course, that they do allocate you somebody else to talk to and that, eventually, they offer you some treatment that will actually help! |