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OK, my military service is done and I am fully retired. I am taking a new job a few states away, and I will seek help from an MH Team when I get there but that will take several months. I have been with my current PDoc and TDoc (or MH in the military) for 15 months. Saw each of them weekly and as high as three times a week when I was in crises. The relationship with the TDoc was not ideal but it was what I was assigned. I miss both of them. Even with the imperfections, I do miss them. Any advice?
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Ever since I stopped doing therapy because of insurance, I've been feeling that old tense and irritable sense of anxiety and stress. I hate that. I was making so many strides and changes during therapy, my therapist would acknowledge all of my progress and accomplishments, and I miss that reassurance. Today I thought about it, and I made those changes! She would always tell me that I chose to...
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In all it's splendid colour!!I'm up for a very short time I hope...It's too early for me but I always seem to have these early awake times where I'm not quite ready to get upAnother chore day for me as I didn't get done all I wanted to yestetdayI hope that your day is blessed...xo
Your doc may know someone in your new state that they can put the referral into now
I would recommend getting into a peer support group when you arrive as you can do that pretty much right away
If you need to you can always go to the hospital ….. Big hug.....xo
Telephone sessions. Hardly. I was locked up in a mental health hospital on a TDO after an attempt that left me unconscious. I called the PDoc and TDoc while I was there, neither called. Neither called. When I needed someone to help me out, they were absent.
The TDoc said I need to find someone and that she can't help me.
Go into the hospital... not without getting myself fired. I work in another Secret space and I wonder how much they will want to know about my mental health? Don't worry about the old HIPA or Privacy, I am working with national secrets and national teams.
Thanks to all that replied. I miss both my PDoc and TDOC dispute our history. But onto the next chapter
There shouldn't be a need for a long disruption in your Mental Health care. Your Insurance should kick in the day you start work. I would be on your Healthcare website looking at Pdocs and Tdocs that day. I would get a Pdoc scheduled ASAP, go to that appt. and get things moving, take the list of Tdocs your Insurance covers and have the Pdoc you see recommend one.
Don't take several months to get your Mental Healthcare in place, its not necessary and for you it is definitely NOT a good idea.
Take care and good luck on the new job.
Kat
Thanks. You gave me an outlet to think this through and to listen to other voices.
Spencer