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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 225383" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Heather, there are many problems with the county mental health. In no particular order of what's most critical- they continuously lose difficult child's file, they hire the lowest on the totem pole (interns and newly licensed) who aren't experienced, since they are the county clinic if you go in at 1:50 for a 2:00 appointment, you might be sitting there until 5:30 (I miss more time from work with them- it almost cost me my job once), they used to take private insurance (I hear now they don't- only medicaid patients) and I had difficult child and myself going to see a therapist there who badgered me for mos trying to get all kinds of details about my childhood when difficult child was erratic or manic or whatever and difficult child already had a diagnosis and the guy kept saying that he was sure he could help for 3 mos then when I took difficult child over one day the guy threw his arms up and said he didn't know what to do or how to help and he had difficult child tdo'd- but no one else- even the psychiatric hospital thought difficult child should have been tdo'd, the guy said he needed difficult child's file and I should have signed release forms- I had signed release forms 6 weeks earlier and he had never looked in HIS file to see it, difficult child had done some things 3 years ago that I wouldn't even want to post here and I went to several people over there and asked if they thought difficult child was a danger to himself or others and they continuously told me no- but kept putting the repsonsibility back on me, every person that I speak with around here (profs) tell me they don't blame me when I say I don't have any faith in them- even the judge nodded in agreement when I brought it up in court, furthermore, they want to throw away difficult child's previous diagnosis, treatment, etc, and start over with their evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment to see if it works then if it doesn't, they will refer him for more help, this isn't even to mention that there is a several month waiting list to see anyone and get started, oh- another thing- their policy is that once you've seen a therapist over there you have to go back and see the same one- you can't start seeing another one so we'd be stuck with mr. "I don't know what else to do". </p><p></p><p>Most of the patients over there are either MR with less educated parents who they can tell almost anything to or, really, the majority are court ordered so they talk to people like they are less than human and try holding the court order or whatever over their head to get you to do what they say and half the time, any decent parent who has done some homework on the issues or advocated for their kid at all knows it's BS. Their tdocs are just less than adequate. I would rather difficult child not live at home temporarily and me be able to continue taking him to private profs than to have difficult child live at home and us go on welfare and medicaid (which quite frankly, we can't live on anyway) and have his mental health care come from there. If that had to happen- I would move out of this county. There are other areas in the state where their local mental health care is MUCH better than here.</p><p></p><p>The guy we saw last Thurs was probably correct- the school could have done more. But his agency isn't worth a darn as far as helping people- except in rare cases when it is a crisis and the cops take them to the crisis area.</p><p></p><p>If this sounds angry- the anger isn't directed at you- it's directed at our local agencies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 225383, member: 3699"] Heather, there are many problems with the county mental health. In no particular order of what's most critical- they continuously lose difficult child's file, they hire the lowest on the totem pole (interns and newly licensed) who aren't experienced, since they are the county clinic if you go in at 1:50 for a 2:00 appointment, you might be sitting there until 5:30 (I miss more time from work with them- it almost cost me my job once), they used to take private insurance (I hear now they don't- only medicaid patients) and I had difficult child and myself going to see a therapist there who badgered me for mos trying to get all kinds of details about my childhood when difficult child was erratic or manic or whatever and difficult child already had a diagnosis and the guy kept saying that he was sure he could help for 3 mos then when I took difficult child over one day the guy threw his arms up and said he didn't know what to do or how to help and he had difficult child tdo'd- but no one else- even the psychiatric hospital thought difficult child should have been tdo'd, the guy said he needed difficult child's file and I should have signed release forms- I had signed release forms 6 weeks earlier and he had never looked in HIS file to see it, difficult child had done some things 3 years ago that I wouldn't even want to post here and I went to several people over there and asked if they thought difficult child was a danger to himself or others and they continuously told me no- but kept putting the repsonsibility back on me, every person that I speak with around here (profs) tell me they don't blame me when I say I don't have any faith in them- even the judge nodded in agreement when I brought it up in court, furthermore, they want to throw away difficult child's previous diagnosis, treatment, etc, and start over with their evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment to see if it works then if it doesn't, they will refer him for more help, this isn't even to mention that there is a several month waiting list to see anyone and get started, oh- another thing- their policy is that once you've seen a therapist over there you have to go back and see the same one- you can't start seeing another one so we'd be stuck with mr. "I don't know what else to do". Most of the patients over there are either MR with less educated parents who they can tell almost anything to or, really, the majority are court ordered so they talk to people like they are less than human and try holding the court order or whatever over their head to get you to do what they say and half the time, any decent parent who has done some homework on the issues or advocated for their kid at all knows it's BS. Their tdocs are just less than adequate. I would rather difficult child not live at home temporarily and me be able to continue taking him to private profs than to have difficult child live at home and us go on welfare and medicaid (which quite frankly, we can't live on anyway) and have his mental health care come from there. If that had to happen- I would move out of this county. There are other areas in the state where their local mental health care is MUCH better than here. The guy we saw last Thurs was probably correct- the school could have done more. But his agency isn't worth a darn as far as helping people- except in rare cases when it is a crisis and the cops take them to the crisis area. If this sounds angry- the anger isn't directed at you- it's directed at our local agencies. [/QUOTE]
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