Depression,PTSD and BC

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  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
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    @kmakm I think u should - I think the introduction will resonate with u too. 

    @Vangirl I might have to buy this book. 
  • Vangirl
    Vangirl Member Posts: 350 ✭
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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.
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
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    @kmakm did u read it?
  • Vangirl
    Vangirl Member Posts: 350 ✭
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    @Kiwi Angel purchased for seven dollars something on Kindle.
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    @Kiwi Angel Not yet, but I will. I've downloaded it. K xox
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
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    @Vangirl I’m old school and love an actual book. I think I saw it on booktopia for $8. 
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
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    @Vangirl I just bought it. I’ll give it a go. 
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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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.
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
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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. 
  • Vangirl
    Vangirl Member Posts: 350 ✭
    edited September 2018
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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!
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    It's not good enough.
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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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.
  • arpie
    arpie Member Posts: 7,578 ✭
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    We need a GRRRRRRR button!!!!  That is disgusting, @Sister   :(  TOTALLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

    BIG Hugs coming your way xxx

  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    @Sister It really isn't. It was the first thing I asked for at diagnosis. I just checked my calendar, I had to wait a week short of two months.

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