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Which option would you go for?

Postby voracious_lemon » Sat May 26, 2018 6:10 pm

1) Having no mental health treatment and probably having repeated involuntary hospitalizations
2) Going to a place where they initially schedule you with a nurse practitioner a month before she leaves the practice, don't process signed release forms so you doctor doesn't receive your lab results or any other records, they don't get you the meds they need for weeks at a time despite you calling them every other day, every couple months have an appointment "disappear" on you--you get a card saying to be there at a certain time and when you get there they say you don't have an appointment and to go home, and your doctor has so many other patients he sees you for 5 minutes and doesn't know anything about your or your flavor of bipolarity.
3) Going to a place where they schedule your appointment in May, cancel and reschedule for June, and repeat until you go to the office in late September, wait in the office where other patients are flipping their $#%^, and end up leaving after waiting for a first thing in the morning appointment for hours... only to have your "treatment plan" mailed to you saying your diagnosed with disorganized schizophrenia and you should have regular appointments for therapy and medication management.
4) Going not local and having to pay $80+ for an uber one way whenever your too unstable or too medicated to safely drive and no one else is able to take a day off to drive you to an appointment (which can be fairly frequently)

Just weighing my options. Honestly don't know which one is best.
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Re: Which option would you go for?

Postby MsSchadenfreude » Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:24 am

Option 3.
If they rescheduled your appointment to June, attempt to go and see what happens.
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Re: Which option would you go for?

Postby voracious_lemon » Sun Jun 03, 2018 2:46 am

I think you misunderstood. This was last year. They kept rescheduling me and then when they didn't for an appointment in September the doctor never showed up. I could go back there it might be better than where I'm at now.
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