If you are suffering, please get help (for your own sake)

[steve2470]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1151

That's our Mental Health Support Group. No, we do not provide professional therapy or crisis services. If you are suicidal, please contact your doctor, family member or friend, or just go to the hospital directly.

There is help available (somewhere, somehow) here in the USA. Yes, it can be hard to find for some people. My understanding is there is a public mental health clinic in every state county/borough/parish in the USA. They usually have inpatient and outpatient services. They usually charge nothing or a very small nominal fee or one based on your income (not $100 or $200 per hour). You can see a board-certified psychiatrist at the clinic and get your medication there (or at least be referred to a nearby pharmacy). There are programs that provide either free or very low cost medication, so that is not an issue.

Bottom line, help is affordable and available (still, thank God). Inevitably someone likes to chide me about suicide. I'm not going to debate this with anyone. I feel how I do, and you feel how you do.

I think many of us already know all this information, but some may not, especially lurkers of this forum. Best wishes to all.


Steve

[Crunchy Frog]

1. I went to our local community mental health facility. Worst thing I've ever done.

I'm still coping with the fallout from the psychological abuse that I got there. Now I'm paying $125.00 a pop to see a nurse practitioner just to prescribe my Klonopin.

If you have a genuinely good facility, that's run by competent professionals who actually care about their clientele, then I guess you're luckier than I am.

[steve2470]

2. so sorry to hear this

[Crunchy Frog]

3. Thanks. Just subscribed to the group.

Maybe someday I'll post there about the experiences I had at that hellhole clinic.

[steve2470]

4. please do when you are ready

[spanone]

5. K&R...

[steve2470]

23. thank you ! nt

[sharedvalues]

6. You are not alone. Amer Psych Assn says TWO THIRDS of Americans are feeling mental stress

http://www.apapracticecentral.org/update/2017/02-23/stress-postelection.aspx

[steve2470]

7. excellent point!!

[herding cats]

8. We need to take care of ourselves first.

So we're here to fight for others later. Self care is so very important.

[steve2470]

9. so true

[herding cats]

10. Sometimes we let things slide when we're overwhelmed.

It's human nature, and no fault of our own. Problem is it tends to snowball, and before we realize it we're at a crisis level. I've spoken to so very many people who are overwhelmed lately, not to mention myself.

Your post is timely and important reminder.

[steve2470]

11. totally agree and thank you

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Thanks so much for this steve2470. ♡

I love how we look out for each other here. I will support you and any others, any way that I can.



♡lmsp

[steve2470]

13. thanks

[butdiduvote]

14. Unfortunately, mental health care isn't affordable to me this year.

Hopefully if I'm still able to get insurance under the ACA at all next year's plan will offer better coverage. In the mean time, I've been taking my anxiety pills more lately. Not gonna pretend I'm not suffering, though. I was looking forward to Hillary's presidency to give me something at all to be happy about...everything in my life is a mess right now, and now so is the country. Oh well.

[steve2470]

15. ......

[mountain grammy]

16. Very hard to find help in many places.

Very hard. Overwhelming. this excerpt is from the link below:

No longer able to afford her apartment, Beckert bunked with a friend and worried about where she would go next. When she asked a caseworker at the clinic about temporary housing, the young woman suggested Beckert live out of her Jeep at the back of the vast Walmart parking lot. Surely no one would notice her there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-river-of-lost-souls-runs-through-western-colorado/2016/11/03/154fd1a0-8651-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html?utm_term=.a9d329e3e659

Something is very wrong in America when all a clinic caseworker can suggest is spending the night in the Walmart parking lot.
Southwest Colorado is a beautiful area in a prosperous state, in a wealthy country. We are broken.

[steve2470]

17. that situation really sucks

[KT2000]

18. Walmart allows people

to park their recreation vehicles for the night in their lots. It is also used here by people who are homeless but do have cars.
Rents are too high to even hope for an apartment and the waiting list for subsidized housing is closed.
Yea - America!

[Still In Wisconsin]

19. I work for the State of Wisconsin... mental health benefits went away over a year ago.

Thanks, Scott Walker.

[steve2470]

20. that really sucks

[aikoaiko]

21. And please keep trying until you find the right therapist or therapy.

There are a lot of different approaches and some will work better than others.

Peace.

[steve2470]

22. so true, same for meds nt