i guess my mental health issues started when i was 18... and so i was always very conscious of insurance stuff from my freshman year on. i can see where you wouldn't know if it hadn't been a really important thing for years, though.
Well, right now I'm going to wait and see for a month or two what happens. I have until April 8... Perhaps after this Dr. Hulsey visit, the doctors will say, "Oh my god! You have the most amazing thyroid deficiency we've ever seen! That explains all your problems, including depression!" and I'll take thyroid medication, which doesn't count as mental health medicine, and then just get a short-term plan without mental health care and go without counselling for a while. Or, if Dr. Hulsey becomes my primary care doctor, he can prescribe zoloft for me, and while that will be expensive, I won't do expensive counselling sessions.
Well, a lot of it is wait until April (8) and see what I'm needing then. It's possible that these metabolic tests show up as some kind of scarily insane thyroid deficiency, I take medicine for that (which wouldn't count as mental health medication), and it clears up many problems including my depression. Then, in April, I wouldn't need medical insurance that requires mental health coverage (assuming by then I don't need counselling either) and I could get a short-term plan until the fall when I go back to school. If I'm still taking Zoloft then, my primary care doctor could prescribe it instead of Dr. McNeil, and while that would still be an expensive medication because I wouldn't get help paying for it, I wouldn't have expensive appointments to see Dr. McNeil or anyone else for therapy.
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on 7 Jan 2002 17:23 (UTC)so any idea what you're going to do?
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on 7 Jan 2002 17:33 (UTC)So, basically, I wait and see.
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on 7 Jan 2002 17:47 (UTC)So yeah, wait and see.