Re: Crisis - poss trigger again (long) » Racer

Posted by alexandra_k on September 3, 2005, at 21:17:52

In reply to Re: Crisis - poss trigger again (long) » kerria, posted by Racer on September 3, 2005, at 17:25:19

> As for not being able to find anyone to see you, I just went through something very, very similar. I'm an adult, and have been getting treatment for Anorexia Nervosa -- Restricting Subtype. Well, it turns out that the Eating Disorder specialists around here will see adults with Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, etc -- even AN-Binge-Purge Subtype, in a pinch. Guess what they won't treat? What I have. One even said to me, "I don't think you'll find anyone who'll see you -- you know why, don't you?" "Uh -- no?" "Patients with Anorexia *die*!" "Oh, OK, I'll go starve to death now. Thanks for your time." Mind you, all I'd need to do to find treatment was to start purging -- get sicker in order to get help. NOT.
Ah. Something has just clicked into place for me. I can't afford private treatment so I have to go with community mental health (public service). I have a dx of DID. There is nobody within the service with any experience / interest in treating the disorder. I got a quote for external (private) treatment and the mental health service said they would not fund external treatment.
They said they were concerned that if they funded external treatment in my case then they would be setting precedent for funding external treatment in the case of eating disorders.
I didn't know what they meant...
I guess its hard to find people willing to treat your dx too.
:-(
And what horrible things people say.
And it does feel like they are just waiting for me to go off somewhere and curl up and die too :-(
I'm sorry Racer :-(

>First time I spoke to her, though, she wasn't comfortable with seeing me. {shrug} Don't know what changed that.
I think it is one thing to turn an abstract person away.
It is another to turn an actual person who is sitting there in front of you away.
Maybe... She saw what a great person you are and how much you really want to get better :-)

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