I am at the system I am having to return to due to finances. The so called Mental Health clinic which I dispise and going back there today to do an intake just triggered all the bad injustices I incurred there. Like how they just ignored my pleas for help when my husband and I were together and I was being abused. Today they tell me they cannot help me till I pay the $550 I owed when still with my husband. They don't care that my husband had kept me broke during that time but yet I am the one they expect to pay the bill. I don't have that kind of money. Society really sucks when there doesn't seem to be any incentive for an abused wife to make it on her own. Becasue my husband made good money I was charged a lot on the premise that it was my money also but yet I never saw my husband's money when married. Now that I'm divorced and on my own the clinic is still not much help.

befuddled2

Dear Befuddled,
You are amazing. You have whethered the stumbling blocks put in front of you. You will figure this out.

I agree that the whole thing stinks.
We need a new system or two or three.

Mari

Hi Mari,

Thanks for the compliment. I have decided that I will find another way. I am going to demand that the Dept. of Rehab. pay for my mental health while I am a client of theirs. It is not in my best interst to go back to the clinic. I really do not know where they get the people to work in these places. For one the people who work the crisis hot line are just comsumers like me who have had only 6 weeks training!

befuddled2

Dear Befuddled,
Good for you in coming up with an alternate plan.
I remember when you had lots of trouble with that clinic place. Maybe they were good for you at one time. I am glad that they are not your only option.

Mari

Dear BF - good for you, use all the resources that are out there for you.

Don't give up!


Nikko

That's good job of thinking up alternatives - and lost of luck to you

Hi all,

I wrote up an editoral tonight for one of the local T.V. stations and voiced my opinion on the Mental Health clinic and how badly they treated me when I was with my abusive husband. I slept mostly on and off till 6 tonight because I'm so depressed. I need to speak out and try to make a difference somehow. The clinic was abusive to me in their actions towards me during my abusive marraige. Like my shrink telling me to try to make my marriage work after my husband had forced himself on me.

befuddled2

You go for it Barb! I have also contacted my local media outlets to advocate for things I believe in. Especially health care. (I also do that with Best Buy but that is another story)
Be your own Advocate and make sure your voice is heard!

Hi Wendy,

I got no response from the news startion and it is sad becacuse no one seems to care at all about the issue of someone with a mental illness like me gets abused. It has me kind of dispondent lately. Like what's the use if people and places can get away with such awful things.

befuddled2

Barb

Keep working on it. You will be heard.

I'm proud of you for getting your story out there either way.

Donna