Struggling to Get Mental Health Treatment

🙏❤️ Good luck, and it says it's for anyone in emotional distress. Not just people who are suicidal.

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No problem, anytime! It sounds like staying home, and getting therapy over the phone/video chat would be better to fit your needs at this time. There are also crisis hotlines. There are hotlines out there for people that aren't suicidal.

Thanks for listening. It’s almost like they don’t have anything streamlined and they don’t talk to each other - the case managers are their own group, the intake physicians are their own group, and the PHP is its own group. The person on the phone didn’t even know that I had a therapist, she didn’t have my paperwork. They apologized and gave me a phone number to lodge a formal complaint with “Patient Advocacy.” I told them that I did not have the energy to do that but I let them know that this bombshell that they dropped on me had a devastating effect. The only thing they could offer me at that point was to admit myself into inpatient. I told them that my sister is an OR nurse manager and she said to avoid all hospitals if possible at this time due to COVID. Inpatient would be worse for me right now - I’m not suicidal and I don’t want to be treated as such, and I’m dealing with breathing issues due to an unresolved ENT issue and wouldn’t be able to handle wearing a mask 24/7.

I'm so sorry that you had to go through that experience. I really hope that they apologize, and have somebody on call at least until you can get off of the wait list. They really need to do better on crisis management. You can't be the only one type of patient out there that has this type of problem. I find it hard to believe that they could not remedy the issue. But the pandemic has really put a strain on all health care workers. People that normally don't have mental health problems are having awful mental health right now. I think it's supply and demand unfortunately. Everyone's overwhelmed, especially those of us that deal with chronic pain everyday.