Posted by stjames on March 25, 2001, at 13:32:05
In reply to I envy your succesfull treatment » pat123, posted by Bradley on March 24, 2001, at 21:55:44
> Of course you don't see the chaos of mental health treatment, you are one of the few lucky ones that find something that helps. There are millions of us that are'nt succefully treated. You don't hear to much from us because we don't have the energy to do much. We usually just die.
No I am not the few, I would say all my close friends are mentally ill and have sucess with their treaatments. Support groups I have attended indicate 50-60 % of people get better on the first or second meds they try (depression). What I see is that those who say "I'm sick, help me" and then wait remain sick. Those who have a negative view of mental helth providers do poorly.
If your care is in a state of choas, change it. Seek out others who do well and find out what they do and what docs they see. Don't envy me, nothing magic happened, I just worked hard at getting well. You have to educate and advocate for yourself. I have walked out of several docs offices on a first meeting because they were weong for me. If you are staying with bad docs or docs that are no helping you then it is your fault
fore waisting your time.Pat
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