Bad Weeks

Hey @Queenb72 ,

I can certainly relate in terms of the high distress and ED trips.

I'm sorry to hear about how you have spent your last few days.

I wonder if you can speak openly to HR and let them know you have been struggling recently, but are now working through it with professional supports? Do they provide employer assistance programs you can phone?

Hope to hear from you.

Thanks for your response.

My team leader knows about my diagnosis, Bipolar 2 and BPD. I was diagnosed about 15 years ago in UK but I’m now in Melbourne, Australia. but it’s seen as business as usual with limited staff and more workload for everyone. They every so often when a supervision takes place ( not often occasionally over once every 3 months) ask what I require for my mental health but I can’t answer. They have demanded proof from a previous psychiatrist what I need but psychiatrist couldn’t respond in detail due to the refrains of my job and to her limited knowledge of my position. I work in local government which is demanding.

Through my job there is an IAP program but it’s three sessions only to talk to someone on the telephone. I did it last year and it was useless. It’s a private company hired from local government.

it’s just too much to comprehend with workload, no support, no family or friends.

Isolation can be a killer. @Queenb72 I'm sorry to hear you feel you don't have anyone to speak to. It must be so difficult to sit with these heavy thoughts.

And yes, the dilemma of what to share with work and what not to share is a conundrum, especially if work is affected.

Are you happy staying in that job?

@Queenb72 Wondering if for a repeat prescription you may be able to organise a telehealth appointment with the original GP, and therefore you wouldn't have to travel 25km? Is this something they might offer?

Hi

no honestly it’s high pressurised. Pretty much the “company” I say it loosely not to identify, decided to offer early pension deals and half the team left. The rest of us have had to take on that work. I’ve seen colleagues who I am unwanted of mental health issues. It’s crazy. I’m just tired and don’t have energy to fight

Hi Hluppy

its so complicated. My head is full of rubbish and anxiety already I can’t even begin to negotiate with another practice to explain. It doesn’t help when I came to Australia approximately 3 years ago I lived with my mother in law and a local doctor prescribed my MH meds. Then I and my then partner moved to another area and I registered with local GP but I was told that to prescribe my mental health meds I had to have a private psychiatrist and that it would have to pay $500 upwards for one appointment. So I declined as can’t afford it.

That certainly sounds so tough @Queenb72 . However, I wonder if you can find a bulk billing psychiatrist? I know they are rare, but maybe your GP can direct you to some?

I'm only saying this because I see/saw a bulk billing psychiatrist. He wasn't the best psych, but at least I got the meds I needed which were first suggested and prescribed by the hospital during an admission. So the discharge papers went to the psych and the psych followed through with the prescriptions...

Hi Tyme

Sorry but how you do you find a bulk for Psychiatrist privately! That option isn’t t open to me due to finances.

God I wish I was regular. Urgh!!’nn

Precisely what I shared in my post above. I asked my GP and they told me about this psych who bulk bills @Queenb72

As I said, he's not the best, but it does the trick. I get what I need.

Thanks

But when you are confused what day it is I find a billed person!

i was supposed to help by local health support during regular hours who called me at 7pm.

From being held against my mental will gor against my will and being ignored.

I have no friends or family.