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Nov 17, 2015, 12:54 AM
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I am doing something for therapy and came up with a very low estimate of the number of hours of therapy I have had in the last 20 years (there was more before that but I don't remember the frequency or even exactly the years). It works out to 44 days and since many months of that time I've been seen twice a week really would be even more.
That is a lot of therapy. I guess I should be very glad for my discounted rate or that would be $100,000 worth of therapy and then another huge amount of psychiatry (which is really another 1-2 hours of therapy per month). Those figures astound me. So much time and money (even at the discount rate)....
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Nov 17, 2015, 07:26 AM
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It blows my mind every time I think about how expensive managing a mental illness is. I can't afford therapy, but my son and I both were in it when I was first diagnosed. Lots of time and money! I easily go through $2400 a year after insurance for pdoc visits and meds for the both of us. This is the first year I haven't ran out of money for them by the end of October. This year he and I have both been stable enough to only need pdoc visits every 2-3 months.
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Nov 17, 2015, 11:34 AM
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I know when I was working I was easily paying thousands of dollars out per year and then getting a huge tax refund. Now it's different as I get my expensive meds through patient assistance programs (so free) and my generics are mostly free or cost $3.
It does amaze me every time I get a bottle of Seroquel and know that the contents are worth more than $10,000 if I were paying out of pocket. The unopened bottle in my drawer is worth more than anything else I own. It's very expensive to have the pleasure of this illness.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Nov 17, 2015, 12:20 PM
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I don't even want to think about how much we pay a year. Especially this year so far.
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#5
Nov 17, 2015, 12:50 PM
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When I had private insurance I could not keep up. It cost me 800$ a month and covered nothing
Now I am on mass health and in a behavioral health program (lost my job and due to repeated hospitalizations was signed up by s.w. at hospital) and pay nothing out of pocket but 3$ meds. It has saved me!
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I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning, I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own I used to roll the dice Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes Listen as the crowd would sing Now the old king is dead! Long live the king! One minute I held the key Next the walls were closed on me And I discovered that my castles stand Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand |
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#6
Nov 17, 2015, 05:45 PM
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I'd be so much richer if I didn't have to deal with BP and all these co-pays for meds, pdoc appointments and therapy...
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#7
Nov 17, 2015, 07:17 PM
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if the money was "ALL" it cost, I would gladly pay it ....
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