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« on: April 25, 2019, 11:41:42 PM »
Posting here to save the ‘exceptionally difficult day’ post. Guess I’m frustrated...frustrated, angry, totally demoralized, and by the very people I should be getting help from!
I know that it’s difficult to find trauma therapy; I just started with a therapist now, been looking for two years (well, ten, but that’s another story).
Don’t know for sure what it’s like in the rest of the country, but in my end, Community Mental Health should be called ‘barbed wire fence’. Not only do they get it wrong, they make it harder to find help. After 45 years of Major Depression and Generalized Anxiety, a psych resident has just diagnosed me with dysthymia. What that means, in this context, is that they’ve washed their hands of me. (There, now he’ll go away).
There is NO mental health care where I live, unless you can pay for it. With the taxes we pay in Canada, that’s a crime. To suggest to mentally ill people that they can get help and then callously ignore them is unforgivable...