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I see my pdoc once a month for an hour. It's mostly meds management that I see her for, and I consider my psychologist to be my primary mental health provider. But my pdoc and I do talk about stuff - like how I'm doing with managing my alcoholism, are my meds working, have I had any depressive symptoms, just in general terms how I'm functioning / enjoying life, managing at work. We also talk about other treatment options that might be open to me through the hospital that would compliment the meds in managing my depression. I've been seeing the same pdoc for about 7 years now and we've always met for an hour. This came in super useful a couple of summers ago, when I had a major crash and was really in trouble. She'd been off on medical leave so hadn't seen me in a while, but as soon as she saw me, she said - this is the worst I've ever seen you, would you consider inpatient treatment. I did, and since she's the clinical director of women's in patient programs at the hospital she got me in within a week. Best thing I ever did for myself.
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"I danced in the morning when the world was begun. I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun". From my favourite hymn.
"If you see the wonder in a fairy tale, you can take the future even if you fail." Abba
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