I love these delicious pictures you've been posting. Thank you!
Also, I wrote a 1000+ word post about the problems with timely access to mental healthcare even for insured people, inspired by your twitter link from earlier, but I haven't posted it because it seems like it would a strange sort of rock dropping in the middle of my LJ and I don't know what to do with it. Do you have any suggestions?
Let's see. I love fucking_meds, fucking_docs, disability and disabled_rage. (I also think it's totally fair to post it on your LJ, seeing as it's your space to discuss what you'd like, but I understand YMMV. *loff*)
Sorry, I feel like I should be more helpful because I would LOVE to read that post. I wish there was a fucking_insurance comm for talking about insurance fail.
Thank you, I'll check those out! And really, it's not even insurance! The main thrust of what I wrote is that there needs to be some kind of access to mental healthcare along the same model as urgent care like Patient First and whatever. Like, if I have a medical issue that needs to be treated within the next day or two but which isn't immediately life-threatening, I probably can't get into my PCP but I can go to Patient First and have it taken care of. OTOH, when I've had mental health crises while not currently in treatment with a psychiatrist, I was offered appointments a month in the future and told that if I needed help sooner than that I should go to the emergency room. And clearly there can be a point where a person needs help quite soon, and the person recognizes that and is being responsible about seeking help, but the options are wait a month or go to the hospital. And the latter option would lead to a) more care than needed, and b) major financial issues. (Urgent care or doctor visit for me: $30. ER or hospital admission: hundreds or thousands.) So, I don't understand why psychiatrists don't keep last minute appointments open, like pediatricians and whatnot do, and I don't understand why insurance companies don't push for that given that the cost difference for them is pretty big, too.
I'm not in that situation right now--things are fine right now--but in the past several years there were two times when I was spending my lunch hour in my car outside work calling shrinks trying to get a very soon appointment and ending up just crying because nobody would help me. :\
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Date: 2011-11-19 12:09 am (UTC)Also, I wrote a 1000+ word post about the problems with timely access to mental healthcare even for insured people, inspired by your twitter link from earlier, but I haven't posted it because it seems like it would a strange sort of rock dropping in the middle of my LJ and I don't know what to do with it. Do you have any suggestions?
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Date: 2011-11-23 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-11-23 02:12 am (UTC)Sorry, I feel like I should be more helpful because I would LOVE to read that post. I wish there was a fucking_insurance comm for talking about insurance fail.
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Date: 2011-11-23 03:22 am (UTC)I'm not in that situation right now--things are fine right now--but in the past several years there were two times when I was spending my lunch hour in my car outside work calling shrinks trying to get a very soon appointment and ending up just crying because nobody would help me. :\
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Date: 2011-11-19 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-23 12:02 am (UTC)Your icon is an awesome match to your username, btw.
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