Depression,PTSD and BC
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@Kiwi Angel I have read the introduction and I will definitely be looking into buying it.
Apart from the insights into my own situation I am also interested to know more about his personal story - about the son with autism, as I have a nine year old nephew with autism.0 -
@kmakm did u read it?0
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@Kiwi Angel purchased for seven dollars something on Kindle.0
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@Kiwi Angel Not yet, but I will. I've downloaded it. K xox0
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@Vangirl I’m old school and love an actual book. I think I saw it on booktopia for $8.2
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@Vangirl I just bought it. I’ll give it a go.0
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Sometimes an intervention comes from the most unexpected source. My radiation treatment is going well, staff very kind and gentle, no real problems with my skin. The treatment room always has music and its my habit to visualise images from the words or what the melody invokes. Yesterday, as the staff left the room, and I tried to relax and get into the 'zone', I heard ACDC 'Highway to Hell'. No, I didn't visualise that one but felt like giggling, it was so incongruous. Small moments ....
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Another discussion brought this one back to mind and I thought I should mention that on Tuesday, I finally got a call back about a psychologist's appointment with the rehabilitation mob that I got the mental health care plan for. Five weeks later!! Too bad if I was suicidal or anything. I do understand that they were short-staffed but what annoys me is that during that time, no-one ever rang me to say that they were still working on getting me in, or suggested a referral to someone else. Basic customer service 101! I am seeing someone else, now - I have three appointments provided by Country Fire Service and then the mental health care plan will take over - and her office organised for my plan to be changed to reflect the change when another recommended psychologist's office insisted that I would have to go back to the GP. The thing is, I just don't have the emotional reserves to deal with shit like this - one of the reasons I need the psych! Thank goodness for the CFS! This is just a rant - I'm slowly getting my equilibrium back.2
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@Sister it’s good u got an appointment but I agree - good think u weren’t suicidal! I made my first appointment the earliest I could when I could do it and she had a free spot and her receptionist rang me to say they had an earlier one and then the shrink herself rang me too at another time to say there was an earlier one. I had to keep telling them I was ok and not about to take myself out.1
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I've been trying to get a psychologist appointment for weeks now. Finally got a letter with an appointment time last week (after requests to both BC nurse and oncologist) but it is more than a month away, and I won't be in the country
Also, the department only has its phones manned one day per week and the hospital switchboard staff doesn't seem to know where calls should be directed.
Good thing I'm not about to take myself out!0 -
It's not good enough.0
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It isn't good enough, is it? I wasn't suicidal but I knew that I was hanging by a thread.0
