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Originally Posted by Daonnachd
If it's a hospital you're working with ask them about applying to the patient financial assistance program. Hospitals in the US get non-taxable charity status by offering patient assistance. I, for example, get ECT every month at about $2,000.00 each treatment and the hospital is writing it off, taking only what my insurance pays. Try talking with an intake staff member or a social worker.
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Good info for others, but it's a CMHC I'm working with and their benefits advisor couldn't help me out much (I may talk to her again though).
I'm trying to get in ACT as literally everyone at the hospital and everyone on my treatment team thinks I need it, but you need to be on medicaid for it (not sure if I've discussed this on here already or if it's just deja vu) and my mom's income + my income is too much to be eligible, but of course neither of us can pay for it ourselves so I'm stuck with 5 minute phone calls every 3-4 months and biweekly therapy which is fine when I'm stable, but I've been stable about 2 months out of 2021 so far.
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My therapist, and my friend I just talked to both are expecting me to go back IP next week because I don't have access to a psychiatrist and all PHP is doing is making me overwhelmed and paranoid. Even the doc at the hospital on my discharge date was said "If going home doesn't make you better, you can just come back." I don't want to live IP though. I spent a month in there mostly just getting worse, then they gave me a PRN to survive and get a break from the paranoia and voices and weird-*** thought patterns and now I'm stuck on 3 APs+mood stabilizer (working well)+benzo+several meds for side effects, still dealing with this **** just on a much milder scale. I think I just have to accept that I'll always be symptomatic to some extent and learn to live with it.