ARE THERE ANY SZ-SPECTRUM SUPPORT GROUPS IN WEST YORKSHIRE?
Question:
How do you come to have such a strong opinion when what you have written says volumes about your ignorance of what exists outside of the USA. Doesn’t pay to believe everything the Republican Party spin doctors tell you about your wonderful health system. God save the gullible. Limbo "Diablo" <diablo@!!nospam.rio.bravo.net> wrote in message
news:68Nd6.7489$Uo2.28495@newsfeed.slurp.net… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Toxic wrote in message … > >I suffer from Schizotypal Disorder (typical), Borderline Personality > >(acting-out typical), and OCD. > >The other month I was dropped by the NHS, because they thought I was > >untreatable. I think it was a personality clash problem – they did not > >respect my points of view. > It’s unfortunate you live in Europe. Here in America you could still > see any doctor you wanted to (provided you had a modest amount of cash). > As for internet support, try these newsgroups and also visit egroups.com > (now yahoogroups.com), register, and subsribe to such mailing lists as > Schizophrenia, Schizoid, etc. > Everyone criticizes America because we do not have socialized medicine (yet). > But were you here you would be able to look up any doctor you liked in the > phone book and make an appointment. They all compete for business, > therefore they will not just dismiss your problems. If one doctor gives you > a diagnosis you don’t like, just make an appoinment with the next one in > the phone book. They also cannot threaten you with institutionalization > because America has strong individual rights guarantees. Unless you are > threatening to kill yourself or others they can do nothing. > My advise would be to ask for political asylum immediately so you can get the > proper medical treatment you need. > Diablo
Response:
Limbo wrote in message <3a786…@iridium.webone.com.au>… >How do you come to have such a strong opinion when what you have written >says volumes about your ignorance of what exists outside of the USA. >Doesn’t pay to believe everything the Republican Party spin doctors tell you >about your wonderful health system. >God save the gullible.
I was responding to an apparent Briton’s negative experience with government psychiatrists. I never said that American health care is perfect. What I said is that if you can pay for it our health care is great. I had the misfortune to enroll in an HMO at a job and when I went for a minor medical condition they wouldn’t even let me see a doctor, just a "nurse practitioner" who prescribed a treatment I already had tried and didn’t work. She told me that my case would have to be reviewed by some committee and 6 weeks! later they sent me a rejection notice. But when I pay out of my own pocket and choose the doctor I want to see I am treated great. The reason I was so opposed to Hillary Clinton’s "HillaryCare" national health care plan is that she was going to take away our right to see our own doctor and to pay him for services. Socialized medicine is committed to making equally bad health care available to all. And it is never "free". Everyone winds up paying for it in the form of exhorbitant taxes. I believe you are in Australia, Limbo. I was shopping around for Risperdal and came across and online pharmacy in Australia. Risperdal in the USA costs US$140 for 2mgX30 tablets. The Australian site was selling it for only AU$22 (~US$12). So you will turn around and describe how wonderful your system is. But your government is actually subsidizing the cost of the drug and therefore you and all Australians have to pay for it through taxes. What part of this concept don’t you understand? Diablo
Response:
Toxic wrote in message … >I suffer from Schizotypal Disorder (typical), Borderline Personality >(acting-out typical), and OCD. >The other month I was dropped by the NHS, because they thought I was >untreatable. I think it was a personality clash problem – they did not >respect my points of view.
It’s unfortunate you live in Europe. Here in America you could still see any doctor you wanted to (provided you had a modest amount of cash). As for internet support, try these newsgroups and also visit egroups.com (now yahoogroups.com), register, and subsribe to such mailing lists as Schizophrenia, Schizoid, etc. Everyone criticizes America because we do not have socialized medicine (yet). But were you here you would be able to look up any doctor you liked in the phone book and make an appointment. They all compete for business, therefore they will not just dismiss your problems. If one doctor gives you a diagnosis you don’t like, just make an appoinment with the next one in the phone book. They also cannot threaten you with institutionalization because America has strong individual rights guarantees. Unless you are threatening to kill yourself or others they can do nothing. My advise would be to ask for political asylum immediately so you can get the proper medical treatment you need. Diablo
Response:
I suffer from Schizotypal Disorder (typical), Borderline Personality (acting-out typical), and OCD. The other month I was dropped by the NHS, because they thought I was untreatable. I think it was a personality clash problem – they did not respect my points of view. Now I feel so alone and abandoned. They would not even give me a social worker, yet my brother (same diagnosis minus BPD) has one and is in receipt of better treatment. Why do other "disabled" people get all the support they need, but not people like me? I feel so marginalised, like someone whom others would pretend didn’t exist. Schizotypy is supposed to be more common than classic sz, so where is all the support groups? Why is no-one addressing the sz SPECTRUM? I have all negative sz symptoms, but mild positives. No-one seems to want to help us MILD SCHIZOPHRENICS. Just because schizotypy is called ‘mild sz’, it doesn’t mean it is not debilitating. With each day my life becomes more empty. I don’t have a job, and feel like a total loser. WHERE ARE THE SUPPORT GROUPS??? WHY ARE THERE NO ORGANISATIONS DEALING WITH MILD SZ SUFFERERS??
Response:
Toxic wrote: > WHERE ARE THE SUPPORT GROUPS??? WHY ARE THERE NO ORGANISATIONS DEALING WITH > MILD SZ SUFFERERS??
Hi… This particular support group has been helpful for me personally and evidently helped many others in getting a better grip on their lives. I invite you to stick around. Take care, Wolfgang…
