I am very overwhelmed. My group therapist online keeps saying I have Bipolar, and that going out to casinos is a sign of mania. The session turned into a psychoanalysis of my behavior, and she kept saying I needed to take my meds. I do take the Abilify every night, and it seems to make the mania worse. So Im really confused. abilify is like a happy pill, the only reason I take it is I fear what will happen if I don’t have the depression/erratic stuff under control. I know that I can go 6 months without Abilify but I will be less stable, more likely to feel deeply but also possibly more sensitive to mania. The therapist keeps saying thats more like Bipolar not schizophrenia. So how am I supposed to think that, when the psychiatrist says I have schizophrenia? I am struggling, my moms getting worse, and I need a new psychiatrist but my dad wont take me to the other practice to fill out the paperwork. And says the private practice has less incentive to help me and is more for-profit than actually helping people with schizophrenia. They were also rude to me and kicked me out for missing an appointment. So I dont have other options.
My dad also said that they plan to appeal the SSI decision because it was unfair. The hearing was intense for me, and they didn’t even factor in my symptoms or MI. They just said I seemed well spoken and friendly therefore I could hold down a job. I haven’t yet been able to, but I dont have support. So Im upset too about that—If I had an opportunity to have a vehicle or transportation to do a job I would because I want to work, and it upsets me that they went around me and started an appeals process without even asking me first.
If my dad is so determined to get me financial support why can’t he himself financially support me in finding a job because it feels abusive that he is convinced I cant work. It feels abusive. It makes me want to stop my meds, freaking pack up and leave.
This I see here too often, but admittedly not lately.
I have also suffered the ‘opinion’ of therapists
Bottom line is they do not have the authority to diagnose or prescribe meds (At least here in the U.K.)
Many times I have had them over-extend their speciality, and they really do not know much of anything at all - my experience has made me wary and not trust them
Just my own opinion on the matter. Let the therapist do their job and just refer them to the Psychiatrist if they question your diagnosis.
I think it to be pretty unprofessional to seed doubt to patients like this - if they have concerns it should be managed internally through the Psychiatrist, and then communicated to you if they do see merit in these idiots musings…
I dont like feeling as though I have been coerced or conditioned to take medications. If I’m not having problems give me a chance to express that. My father is very annoying; my mom and I are liberals and whenever I say anything political he contradicts me. It’s like he wants to shut down the conversation. He says it bothered him that I brought up that Kamala Harris was doing nothing for the border crisis and was funding the wall. He said, “No! They’re not funding more of the border wall! No! Biden never said he would tear down the wall, its security. They can’t just sign an executive order and the crisis goes away. There are rules and laws” and then when he makes his point he leaves and goes to his other house. So when it comes to personal issues like whether or not I can afford my own place, it’s either I get on SSI or continue to attempt to succeed at college. It just feels like he’s undermining me by asking the attorney to appeal before I spoke with them.
They found me non-disabled. I am not disabled. I don’t want to appeal. I am in college on my own accord, I just need some extra support in order to become financially successful.
I dont want extra support. I have no income. I dont have transportation. Im trying to avoid becoming homeless. There are no resources for people with schizophrenia, I have no criminal background. I am smart, and have a high IQ, there is no one guiding me or giving me advice or direction and has not been for the past ten years. I have no role models, I am locked out of my facebook and social media because I forgot my old password and number. I am in the process of communicating possible ID theft to wells fargo, and trying to win the settlement so I can get out/of this house. Part of the settlement has to do with them mailing my credit cards to the wrong address and someone stealing my info and then possibly a data breach. Its the 2015 class-action settlement that I have been talking to them about for years. But have been ignored, bricked out of my accounts, my credit scores is inaccurate, I have a $800 bill that isn’t even my own bill through healthcare and went to collections. Im getting letters from paypal that I think are scams saying I owe money. My email address kept calling me someone else, and I had to figure out how to shut down a paypal address with my email connected to my boyfriend’s account, but it had his SS number in it. I dont think I made it, but I dont remember how it got created or why. And it has his address, with my number, with my email.