• SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
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    17 hours ago

    It took almost 2 fucking years after my first initial appointment to get properly medicated.

    I’d literally kill myself if I was forced to do it all again.

    You “just go see a doctor”–folk have no idea how fucking difficult it is to 1). actually be seen by a competent doctor, 2). be taken seriously, 3). and actually receive treatment for mental health stuff.

    That’s not even including the whole “getting out of a shit enough headspace to actually do all that stuff in the first place.”

    Unmedicated me felt like wading through hell.

    Be kind to those with different chemistry. Shit sucks.

    • Shou@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      This^

      My GP called to mock and say she hadn’t called the crisis help for an appointment yet. Two weeks she let fly by. No doubt more if it wasn’t for a family member calling her.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      15 hours ago

      I want medication for my ADHD and instead the doctors I would see kept trying different antidepressants. None of them helped. In fact most just added more problems, like not being able to get an erection, weight gain, and fatigue. I would tell them and they would either switch to a different antidepressant or up the dosage.

      I know the cause of my depression and I want to treat that; not the fucking symptoms of depression itself. But I also have shitty insurance that’s only accepted by 2 different networks of health care where I am, and they are so understaffed for the mental health shit that making an appointment anywhere is always 6 to 8 months away, and even if you show up the doctor might not.

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      16 hours ago

      And that’s not even taking into account the miseries of:

      1: Fighting with insurance to let you have what you desperately need at a price that wouldn’t bankrupt you.

      2: Fighting with your pharmacy over prescription issues.

      3: Dealing with sudden nationwide shortages.

      Fuck…

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      17 hours ago

      Even once I had a great doctor who knew what I had, it still took nearly two years to find a medication that worked for me with side-effects that I could tolerate. It’s a long frustrating journey.