Depression Support Group
Depression is a real and debilitating condition that is often misunderstood by family and friends. Its meaning can range from a prolonged period of sadness to an actual mental illness with specific symptoms. Find and share experiences with others who are going through the same struggles.
So idk why to even bother, I've told my doctors I won't be able to afford to keep seeing them. Which means none of my psychiatrist prescribed meds or my primary care doctor for pain meds. As it stands now I've got enough to pills still available to just remove myself from the equation. Not much else makes any sense and I've not heard from social worker that can explain what help there is. No need calling suicide crisis veterans line all they would do is call police and then it's suicide by a cop's gun instead of or on top of pills, well hallelujah and pass the ammunition.
I've said this in another post recently and it seems to be appropriate again. I have to be my own advocate. I make a pain in the ass out of myself for people who are there and paid to help people like me. When my doctor royally messed up a referral that could've delayed back surgery for a year or more and put me on an indefinite waiting list for a test I didn't need , and I found out by contacting another doctor at another hospital , I was livid. I showed up at my doctors office unannounced and demanded to speak to the physicians assistant that made the error. Did she fix it or take responsibility? No she didn't acknowledge it. She blames the person who received the original referral for reading it incorrectly. I was there when the doctors receptionist was on the phone with my doctors office and said that this particular physician's assistant is new and made a mistake. Her own office through her under the bus. I saw the referral and I could see this mistake and it was glaring.
I have been on peoples asses left and right because they are being paid very highly or at least modestly highly to do their job. I expect them to do it.
Although I am not currently a taxpayer, I was and will be again . So I pay your salary . I am your customer and your stockholder. I was then in the past and I will be again in the future and dammit you're going to do your job or you will never hear the end of me. You have to take on this attitude now. It is the only way for you to get the help you need. If you don't feel like you are in a position to take on this attitude, find your most awnery friend who is willing to help you and ask them to do it for you until you can feel like you can do it for yourself. It sounds sarcastic but I am being completely serious. You have to be your own advocate. You have to force people to do their jobs. And you deserve appropriate healthcare.