Resource Thread

by **seanetal** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:13 am

Every now and then I'll be posting polls about various topics. Most of these will be ongoing and hopefully people will fill them out whenever they run across one.

If I am missing a possible response, please let me know!

by **sweetngentle** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 1:28 pm

I cast my vote for: Lack of decent Insurance benefits for mental health coverage. My medical insurance covers only 50% of inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations. That makes it impossible for me to go in-patient......no matter how desparate the situation is. Also my co-pays on my meds can be anywhere from $10.00 - $40.00 depending on how new the drug is. Lousy coverage IMO!!!

Sweetngentle

by **Wissar** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:29 pm

Sean, you present several ideas, each a Good choice
But the most obvious, today, Is the One that you miss.
For it is with a Heavy Heart and a small quiet voice
We say, the Most Difficult, is for US to Deal with this.

Not having our First Choice,
We've decided to then agree
as our Favourite Ms Moderator
Insurance coverage is Lousy.

Paws away,
Wissar

by **seanetal** » Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:23 am

Wissar,

I agree that just dealing with the symptoms of the illness is probably the hardest thing, but I guess I was looking for the most difficult outside influence. I consider everything I lsted as a part of US dealing with the mental illness.

by **lizard71662** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:21 am

When friends and family don't understand the stay away from you at a time when a person can use all the support that they can get. My family ignore's my mental illness pretends it does'nt exist.

by **jbird** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 4:59 am

I am a borderline forgotten... My family and husband ignore the fact that I am what I am.. Oh well No body will ever know what its like to be me.. so goodbye to you all

by **citrus** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:32 pm

I said that just dealing with mental illness is very hard. All the other stuff is very hard to deal with but I think that dealing with the disorders sort of encompasses all those other things too.
Love
Aleta

by **melly** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 4:45 pm

For me definately it is dealing with family members and friends and their reaction to it....typical of me ....as i always worry what others think!!! They all deny the fact I am DiD and i have even gone as far to not tell some of them...knowing surly they will not believe me and tell me to just 'get over it'

Mell

by SH » Mon Apr 21, 2003 9:03 pm

What's most difficult for me is being somewhat disabled but not being disabled enough to get disability pay.

I am disabled because I now realize that I have periods of loss of time (blackouts) when I don't know what I am doing. Because I make serious mistakes during these trance states, I can't do the type of jobs I used to do, but I still have to work to support myself.

This condition can affect any job, so I am afraid of all jobs, but must work. So I am adjusting to downgrading my job type to something that will not affect/endanger lots of people, but which will pay enough for me to support myself.

My only other choices are the street and homelessness, or death.

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