Beth,
What you say sounds like the truth.
Keep yourself safe.

I hope that you are sleeping better soon too.

M.

My neighbor came home today.
New pdoc said she did not need meds, no therapist referral, wants to see her in a month....
Great!
She is all happy happy happy.
sigh

Oh Dear!
What is that about?
She needs a therapist -- at least that?
Mari

From some experience I have from others. I would say that the person
that she saw knew to a degree she wouldn't follow through. So thought
it a waste of time. Which is just to bad.

Sigh

Donna

Dear Beth,
If it were I, I would have to keep my distance, but it would be hard.
Do what you can Beth.

Do what is right for you and not one second more.

It's quite possible that she will start coping better and do a better job of taking care of herself.

In the meantime, you can find things to do this weekend that are productive and fulfilling.

M.

No therapy because she might not be compliant???? It infuriates me how patients with mental health problems are given second class treatment. If she’d had a heart attack, even if she weighed 300 pounds and reeked of fried chicken, do you think the hospital would have given her a Twinkie and sent her home? It’s discriminatory and disgraceful. :mad:

Bizi, Just because the professionals won't take responsibilty for you neighbour doesn't mean you should. You've done what you can and more than the hospital did. Take care of yourself. I wish you were my neighbour. :hug:

I am going to give her this book that I read that I like.
It is called healing the addictive mind.
I am going to give her a journal.
Yesterday She said she would listen and do anything
that I asked her to do.
She said that this is a new beginning for her, she was going to have business cards made up with her name alone....not leslie and harry.
She is on a new journey.

bizi

Oh beth, you have been going through some really hard times! Wow I had no idea, I just caught up on everything and don't quite know what to say other then take care of yourself. You didn't mean to run Cinnamon over, like you said he didn't move this time. Crap happens....I am sorry your neighbor has had such a bad attitude about 'people ruining her plans' but sheesh, she was not in her right mind then and doesn't sound like she is in her right mind now if she's all happy to not need meds and to see a pdoc once a month...She needs some serious therapy IMO. :(

Wow, Bizi

I see something in your writing. If she has the business cards made up.
And really makes this change, to me this is the first step in her new life.

Next give her the book. It sounds like a good one. But remember she
has to chose to read it.

Next the journal is a very good idea. I love to journal my thoughts. But
some people instead of thoughts journal poems, and other things they write.
So if thoughts is to hard for her to start. Tell her to write her to do list
for each day. And to add maybe one thought about something she would
like to change or say about herself.

Not sure how to word.

Donna

I did not give her that book....yet.
I think she is doing well considering.
She told me today that she is seeing a therapist in a month...no pdoc because no meds.

Last night, I gave her a book from SARK eat mangoes naked and dealing with the pits...or something like that. and a journal, I told her that she needed to start with " My name is Leslie" and go from there. and I gave her a nice card that says with music that I believe in her.
I spoke with her on the phone for a few moments and she had been gone all day. one of her friends talked to her for 3 hours about all of her own grief issues...leslie jsut listened....I told her that we were all fragile and that we had more in common with other people than we realized.
Every body has stuff that they deal with.
I then nicely cut off our conversation because she had been overloaded with all kinds of activities and she needed to go to bed.
She thanked me today for this.
I think she is going to be ok...I really do.
bizi
I am going to ask that this thread be closed now the title could be triggering for some here.