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I had a horrid psychiatry appointment today. I’ve been seeing Genny, my psychologist, since the end of January. I had to be in care of her for a few months before I could see Dr. Tony, the psychiatrist and today was my appointment with him. He was HORRIBLE. Not only did he want every detail of my life from who my boyfriend is and where he is and my past boyfriends but he was also inquiring about my sexual life and such. He was invasive to information not relevant to my treatment.

Then he proceeded to determine I didn’t need ANY medication even though I haven’t slept a single night through in months, I can’t get into REM sleep when I wake up over and over again and toss and turn. He didn’t care. I also don’t need anything for a mood stabilizer even though I can quickly go from happy to miserable and snappy in an instant (which is noted by like EVERYBODY) and also my depression? Basically nonexistent. It’s all to do with my “honey” being gone away from me. That’s absolute bull crap because this was ongoing during the time Randy was home and he noted this before he even went back to prison. It’s just intensified since he’s been gone. He wants me to continue therapy with Genny and see him in 2 more months.

Overall he was extremely condescending and I had tears burning under my eyelids before i even walked out of there. I got in the car and burst into tears, I cried on the way back to my grandmas, and walked in there bawling my eyes out. My mom immediately got on the phone with my old psychiatrist (who I stopped seeing b/c I thought he didn’t see patients over 18) and got me an appointment for May 17th. Thankfully they still accept my insurance because I really liked him. I’m on state funded insurance called Family health plus which is connected in part to other insurances offered through social services like Medicaid and Medicare. I KNOW I’ll be put on prescriptions because he didn’t hesitate to before. I don’t have a copay for my services or prescriptions thankfully. I know my grandma is on Medicare and I’m not SURE if she has any copays but I do know she’s on medications and maybe medicare part d could help her out with that. She’s on a fixed income as it is.

I was tempted to call Genny and cancel all further appointments but I like her and chemistry with your therapist is important so I’m going to see if I can continue my psychological stuff with her and go elsewhere for meds and such. We shall see though. I DO know that I refuse to see that man EVER again.

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