How do you find these groups and special trauma therapy? We sometimes have a DBT group that starts and stops sporadically that I guess I’m on a waitlist for now. I was in it before (after being on the waitlist probably a year)and got kicked out after three weeks (don’t really regret it though because those three weeks were torture and I got nothing out of any group because it was 50 minutes of people explaining their specific homework (everyone go around and explain their DEARMAN script and the context of the situation) then 5 minutes of starting to read the packet for that week’s lesson but then “oh time’s up.”) so I’m not super hopeful on that.

My therapist said they have a group for substance abuse, but it’s not really for dual diagnosis, but she could try and ask if I could get in if I wanted to in a few months.

There’s an overall support group somewhere in town on Thursdays but it’s from like 8-9pm and I am a far cry from a night owl. I tried calling the people that run it to see if you have to sign up or register ahead of time but could never get a hold of anyone.

I was told Boston had a complex trauma center and got referred therefor Zoom therapy from the hospital I was just at. The social worker said she’d call me when she hears back, never got that call. I got referred to an eating disorder PHP (that I wouldn’t have transport to) and got denied for being “too acute” and got referred to inpatient eating disorder treatment and got denied for “not being critical enough to meet criteria.”

I tried looking up EMDR therapists that take my insurance and there are none around here.

I’ve done decent at not using substances I’m not prescribed. I smoked a lot of weed in February (which was encouraged by my therapist because at the time it was that or end up in jail for violent crime), and had a couple drinks in December. No binge drinking since the summer. I did drink rubbing alcohol with klonopin in it a few weeks ago but that wasn’t with a recreational purpose, but still, I guess that means it’s gonna be another whole year before bipolar meds have a chance of doing anything, or so I keep hearing.

I keep looking online and there’s like nothing accessible.