Update on current situation

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Ok so as I mentioned in a previous post due to the serious depressive episode I am in I was seeking out IOP. I went to a center that had good reviews. It was pretty. They gave me an evaluation to see what level of care I needed and they firmly told me I needed to be in the partial hospitalization program which meets 6 hours a day 5 times a week for a minimum of 1 week before they would consider moving me to IOP which meets 3 times a week for 3 hours.

The issue with that is that it completely conflicts with my classes, and for one of my classes the instructor insists I drop out. This just makes a mess for me as it wastes my parents’ money, makes me have to take it during the year and is just generally lame. It was impossible because after a lot of arguing back and forth with the instructor and the facility the situation ended up being either drop a class or go without mental health care for a month or more in my current condition. I find that incredibly dangerous.

I am upset that the instructor could not find a way to accommodate me. I am upset the program could not find a way to accommodate me. In the end I had to choose my personal well-being, if not for myself then for my loved ones who I’ve been putting under a lot of stress lately. All I can say is, this program better be damn helpful.

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I say screw them and their PHP!

It’s not like you’re being court mandated, you’re voluntary, so they should just let you take the IOP!

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I know!! But they said they wouldn’t take me unless I agree to do the PHP for at least a week! It was such an exhausting process to find a program. None of them are accommodating to people who still want to stay engaged in life and active. You’d think they’d be doing everything they could to keep me in school.

Anyways I started out looking at this evening IOP my friend went to which wouldn’t conflict with classes. They interview me, tell me my symptoms are too severe to be in the evening IOP because they didn’t have enough staff around. Then they recommend me to literally the only 3 other places in my state that offer psychiatric IOPs (they actually gave me 4 numbers but one of the numbers said their IOP was only for drug addiction). One of the places is way too far from anywhere I live. The other place only had times that conflicted with my classes and was not close to my classes either. So basically my only choice was this current facility, and they refused to take me unless I do PHP due to severity of symptoms.

Why is it so difficult to get help?