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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 219488" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>Stelly, I do think geographically, it can vary considerably from state to state, and also county by county. I also think type of insurance coverage (or lack thereof) can have a lot to do with things, as well. </p><p>My husband was in VA hospital, actively mid medication induced violent psychosis....standing ON the nurseing station desk screaming incoherently......and psychiatric hospital called security to force me to take him home discharged him. I kept saying no and I left.....they had security come get me from my car. </p><p></p><p>I have had ambulance and police refuse to transport, and have er refuse to admit even when difficult child was in process of cutting in front of them........</p><p>It just depends on SO many things....</p><p>I am VERY afraid as economy gets worse, more services will be cut even more.....oh the horror stories I witnesed in fellow day treatment patients here in the 90s......when funding dried up. VERY scary. It might get progressively harder to get help anywhere. </p><p>Again. </p><p>And truth is some of the helping places etc are looking good on paper, or in theory, but, once involved, you sometimes find that NOTHING goes how it is supposed to, not even close. Very often here, our experience was people referred you over there...and once over there...they refered you over there.....and noone really did anything.except refer you somehwere else....hoping you would never catch on to the truth that all any of them were doing was simply passing the buck. Hoping you would be so busy moving along you might forget to notice your loved one was not really being helped at all.....</p><p>And es, you could be approved for things here, but then there would be 1,000 reasons wy opps this did not work out rigt, oh the person in charge s out sick (except guess wh, te persn in charge actually did not even exist at all) Respite ordered and approved, and respite person is en route to your house.....en route to your house for 3 days, but never arrives......(I found out after being hired as a respite provider at the very same company that that was a ploy.becuz they had so few employees, they could only fill maybe one quarter of the positions, so they would make up excuses for nonexistant respite workers----then they would record in paperwork to county that the client refused respite entrance to home once they arrived at home, when truth was they never sent anyone out to client at all, becuz they HAD noone to send) </p><p>HA, difficult children one discharge included very clear instructions - her discharge was supposedly contingent upon specific things....such as MY attendance at parenting group at same psychiatric hospital twice a week post discharge? HA! they had no group leader....and cancelled the group- difficult child was supposed to "follow up with her psychiatrist at same facility associated with psychiatric hospital? Yeah right....reason difficult child landed in psychiatric hospital was becuz the same facility HAD no psychiatrist...the psychiatrists had all quit and they could not get a replacement.......for 11 months. </p><p></p><p>These things occured........I was not posting here at that time, but I WAS posting at another diferent parent support group online at that time.....and......there were people who wondered about my ntegrity becuz of my complaints.....they actually sent people from that online support site to us in person.........who found~ yup- sometimes, someplaces.things really can be that bad.</p><p>I will always be grateful that site knew people, and got my difficult child in to a wonderful psychiatrist etc -altho that psychiatrist was a VERY VERY long trip from our home. and we stopped useing ALL services local after that........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 219488, member: 1697"] Stelly, I do think geographically, it can vary considerably from state to state, and also county by county. I also think type of insurance coverage (or lack thereof) can have a lot to do with things, as well. My husband was in VA hospital, actively mid medication induced violent psychosis....standing ON the nurseing station desk screaming incoherently......and psychiatric hospital called security to force me to take him home discharged him. I kept saying no and I left.....they had security come get me from my car. I have had ambulance and police refuse to transport, and have er refuse to admit even when difficult child was in process of cutting in front of them........ It just depends on SO many things.... I am VERY afraid as economy gets worse, more services will be cut even more.....oh the horror stories I witnesed in fellow day treatment patients here in the 90s......when funding dried up. VERY scary. It might get progressively harder to get help anywhere. Again. And truth is some of the helping places etc are looking good on paper, or in theory, but, once involved, you sometimes find that NOTHING goes how it is supposed to, not even close. Very often here, our experience was people referred you over there...and once over there...they refered you over there.....and noone really did anything.except refer you somehwere else....hoping you would never catch on to the truth that all any of them were doing was simply passing the buck. Hoping you would be so busy moving along you might forget to notice your loved one was not really being helped at all..... And es, you could be approved for things here, but then there would be 1,000 reasons wy opps this did not work out rigt, oh the person in charge s out sick (except guess wh, te persn in charge actually did not even exist at all) Respite ordered and approved, and respite person is en route to your house.....en route to your house for 3 days, but never arrives......(I found out after being hired as a respite provider at the very same company that that was a ploy.becuz they had so few employees, they could only fill maybe one quarter of the positions, so they would make up excuses for nonexistant respite workers----then they would record in paperwork to county that the client refused respite entrance to home once they arrived at home, when truth was they never sent anyone out to client at all, becuz they HAD noone to send) HA, difficult children one discharge included very clear instructions - her discharge was supposedly contingent upon specific things....such as MY attendance at parenting group at same psychiatric hospital twice a week post discharge? HA! they had no group leader....and cancelled the group- difficult child was supposed to "follow up with her psychiatrist at same facility associated with psychiatric hospital? Yeah right....reason difficult child landed in psychiatric hospital was becuz the same facility HAD no psychiatrist...the psychiatrists had all quit and they could not get a replacement.......for 11 months. These things occured........I was not posting here at that time, but I WAS posting at another diferent parent support group online at that time.....and......there were people who wondered about my ntegrity becuz of my complaints.....they actually sent people from that online support site to us in person.........who found~ yup- sometimes, someplaces.things really can be that bad. I will always be grateful that site knew people, and got my difficult child in to a wonderful psychiatrist etc -altho that psychiatrist was a VERY VERY long trip from our home. and we stopped useing ALL services local after that........ [/QUOTE]
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