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[...] eventually got stable — mostly through my own hard work — and found someone to oversee my weaning off the medications. In the end, I was able to go [...]

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:39:00 +0000

oy, your tally looks a lot like mine. i shudder to think what my bill would have been for 4 hospitalizations if i hadn’t been paying the obscene monthly COBRA — easily a six-figure number.

i was lucky, too, that i was living in a state with good mental health parity laws and one of the best facilities in the country. much as it likes to talk about being progressive, Oregon is shameful when it comes to mental health resources. (though it *is* the first place i had a provider suggest fish oil! someday i should do a post on “East Coast” vs. “West Coast” psychiatry!).

By: Broodmother

Broodmother — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:12:00 +0000

Oh, I was waiting for this post and then I almost missed it!

That’s a fantastic breakdown of the costs (and the privilege involved therein) associated with living a normal life when you have a mental illness. I’m almost scared to crunch my numbers. Nationalized healthcare can’t come soon enough.

By: Arwyn

Arwyn — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:50:00 +0000

Ruth — Well, right off the bat we can say NHS would have saved us at least a third of the cost, what with $10,500 going just to pay for health insurance, that didn’t even last all four years… I’m not sure how much of the rest they would have covered, though; what’s the therapy coverage like? (There were county-sponsored therapists in town, they were just swamped and impossible to get in to see and not so much quirky-humored Buddhist-influenced woo-ish types.) I’m picturing a UK set up like what I know of your midwifery, with state-sponsored and ?randomly assigned? practitioners paid for, but also a thriving — and expensive — independent therapists as an option. (By the way, my ability to post on your site has once again vanished; do you have an email or anything? It’s kinda driving me bonkers not being able to reply to some stuff.)

TMae — thank you. And yes, the no-magic-formula is something I have to work hard to remember sometimes; it’s all to tempting to throw a bottle of fish pills at someone and tell them to go get a massage and they can be healthy and stable Just Like Me. As though it had even been as easy as that for me… (By the way, when are you gonna start blogging, huh, huh, huh??)

By: TMae

TMae — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:08:00 +0000

You’re totally worth it.

There’s no magic formula that fits everyone, either. Kudos to you for having the strength, courage, and persistency to find things that keep you healthy.

By: Ruth Moss

Ruth Moss — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:56:00 +0000

Oh Arwyn, that’s terrible to think you live in a place where you have to pay such huge amounts of money just for your own sanity.

There are *huge* problems with the NHS and their take on mental health but at least we have some small chance of getting the treatment we need at low cost.