So, I was sitting on the edge of a virtual cliff last year, impending doom creeping up on me faster and faster. Dysthymia combined with an episode of major depression. I don’t have a family doctor so I tried to go into the walk in clinic for a referral to a
psychiatrist. The MD would not help me and said I need a family doctor, they are the only ones that can help me. This MD had no fucking interest in helping me whatsoever. I was able to self refer myself to the clinic on bayers road. I was given an appointment with a SOCIAL WORKER. My sister-in-law is a social worker and she could help me about as much as a bad case of diarrhea. I went, like a good little boy. I had a good talk, one which I could have had with my wife, and was told to hold something I like whenever I have a bad thought. This was after telling this person that I had no will to live and have been depressed since I was 10 years old. Luckily I have a loving
wife who understands me, so I didn’t do anything rash. Fast forward 10 months to today. The doom has reached me, I am actually hanging off this cliff, holding on for my dear life, one which I don’t want anymore. I called the clinic as a last resort to get some help. Help? Yeah sure, once again I got a person who barely speaks english, who did everything in her power to not supply me with any help, and to try and make me angry. Mission accomplished. I hung up the phone and am here, living in Nova Scotia, paying taxes higher than anywhere else, living in such a shitty city that makes my feelings worse. Where do my
taxes go? They go to keep the 3 inches of water and ice on the sidewalks for weeks on end. They go to keep branches hanging down over the sidewalk so they poke your eyes out. At least I have a tax return to look forward to, one that is about 50% of what it would be in most other provinces. — Nothing Left
This article appears in Feb 14-20, 2013.
depression is nothing to take lightly for sure op. what about metro crisis line, they should be able to help. it is a hard time of year but this too shall pass. hold on tomorrow will be better.
if you want a shrink in a hurry, tell someone that you are gonna kill yourself. the cops will come, take you right to the eval ward at the jail, and in less than 24 hours, you will have your head doc. i know of a girl that did just that, just after they built the new place. she was as depressed as they can come, and she was on the vege of actually killing herself.
this i found out later, a real nice person, just too much bullshit at the time for her to cope with.
oh and by the way o.p., there is a new walk in clinic in fairview, at 16 titus street, that is taking new patiants.
Why didn’t you get a family doctor? You had, self admittedly, 10 months to get one. Next time be proactive instead of reactive.
i just reread your bitch again, and it seems that you have already did what i said. and to no use. i really feel for you dude. my grand daughter that i love more than life itself, is headiing out west very soon. and it feels like someone has taken a very dull knife, and cut a major part of me out. i either have to accept that i will hardly ever see her, in the flesh again for years, or move that way myself.
actually, maybe a change of scenery would do both you and i good. this area is like a sponge, sucking the life out of people, and giving piss all in return. i have no idea what your financial sources are and how much, but for me, i have enough. i can retire now completely, and still live decently. i have my own types of businesses, and the cash that i could get for selling out, would be extra. as well as my bike and other classic car. then there are the accounts still owing. but to each their own o.p., hope things work out for you. and remember just this, STICK IT TO THE MAN.
If this is real and you are legitimately depressed to the point of considering letting go of that cliff, then please, for yourself and your family, call these people and get some help:
http://www.suicideprevention.ca/in-crisis-…
If, however, this is just your way of bitching about Nova Scotia or the provincial tax rate and the services, (or lack thereof), that your tax dollars buy you, then all I can say is extremely bad form, OB.
If you need a family doctor, the clinic in scotia square is taking new patients, ravines medical off larry uteck is too. Stay strong!
In the last ten months did you try to find a family doctor? I have depression and mental health issues too. Next time you have a few days off call 911 from a land line and tell them you’re going to kill yourself then hang up. If you are worried about the cost of an ambulance call a help line and tell them you are going to kill yourself. Police and paramedics will come and they will take you to the hospital if you consent and they will get you help. There is a free MSI mental health clinic in the area I forget where and if you can commute they will offer you long term treatment. Please don’t let our shitty mental health care system keep you from getting the help you need. And for the love of god get yourself a family doctor, you can find a list of doctors taking on new patients online, I’ll get back to you with the address if I can find it. Best of luck to you and your wife.
http://www.gov.ns.ca/health/physicians/ I don’t know if that will work I’m posting from my phone but if you copy and paste it to your browser it should work. It’s a directory of family physicians taking on new patients.
Callin 911 on yourself is a good way to get yourself locked in the nut house, certified and drugged against your will. Once you’re in the clutches of psychiatry, they hold on to your ass. Shrinks will call your other doctors to get you to keep appointments. They will try to put you on a community treatment order that forces you to take toxic medications daily. You will encounter horrible side effects, decline in physical health and drug dependence. I would count yourself lucky that you’re being ignored. Maybe you should call one of the “charitable” corporations like the phone company, who supposedly contribute to mental health (psychiatric genocide) by promoting their texting services and ultimately increasing their profits.
Suicide is illegal, so if you call 911 and tell them your going to kill yourself, the fuzz will show up and arrest you if need be forcibly to take you to a hospital.
Dude, at the end of 2011, I was exactly where you are now. I went down the exact same avenues you did. Calling the crisis line was a joke. Bayer’s Rd clinic was about as much help as…well, it was no help at all. It was not until my suicide attempt that I had ever heard the words “dysthymia” and “double depression”. It’s a dark and lonely place to be. Go to the QEII, preferably the Abbie Lane building, and tell them you are suicidal, and need to be hospitalized for your own safety.
I didn’t know about all of this until it was almost too late for me. Getting proper help when you have a mental illness is so very hard, and it feels like you’re jumping through one hoop after another, but go to the hospital, ok? There is hope, believe me. It may be a long road, especially when feeling down is all you’ve ever known, but I am an example of the fact that it does get better. Honest. It doesn’t have to be like this.
If you call 911 and waste resources to get a taxi ride to the bin, you’re a dickhead.
Get real help, for crying out loud.
If you call 911 to get a ride, all thise leople involved are just going to think you’re a SET, OB.
Get real help.
P
All you have to do to get a government psychologist is to go to your doctor and tell him that you’re an alcoholic/substance abuser and that you want to know why you drink. He’ll most likely send you to the ones in Bayers road.
no fool
A fitting response.
sorry op but i sort of agree with stephenharperdevil.
I’m sorry you’re having such a hard time but you didn’t get on this when you were feeling ok. This is what happens when you don’t get a GP. if you have a medical condition, it is extraordinarily irresponsible of you not to secure a GP asap.
See i also have a chronic medical condition. At times it makes walking impossible. And it would be a really bad idea for me to move somewhere and be all like “owell.. i can walk today so fuck getting a GP. The world will accommodate me when i need one”
Op take some responsibility. I hope things get better for you.
momma mac Lucky you.Obviously you met the right person.I’m happy for you, they were able to help you.
Daniel These days maybe that’s the case.Christ knows, for years the “professionals” at addictions thought it an insult if anyone told them addiction/alcoholism is caused by a
mental illness.That addicts/alcoholics were self medicating as a way of coping with their mental illness.
no fool isn’t totally wrong.
Sure there are doctors out there taking patients but too many of them are doctors who depend too much on his/her prescription pad.
I feel badly for OP.I know exactly how OP feels.
A “mental case” walks into a doctors office looking for help and doesn’t get it.They get stigmatized instead.End up leaving the office feeling worse then you did walking in.
Unless you’ve been through that you can’t have empathy for anyone who was.
eats_crayons Sorry to hear about your condition.I sincerely hope your well. 🙂
This happens with our dog all the time. I get her a new bag of treats, solves the problem.
Ok no fool. The other day I was having a bad day, called my parents to come give me a break I was sobbing my face off like a heartbroken middle schooler. My mon was busy but said she’d be out ASAP, then she called some help line to tell them to call me or something but once they heard I was depressed and alone with my kids and she was “worried” about me they called 911.
Paramedics and 2 RCMP cars showed up. We chatted. They asked me if I took anything I shouldn’t have, took my blood pressure, offered to take me via ambulance to the hospital which I declined and then they reccomended a bubble bath and a nap (men eh) Nobody arrested me.
Have your WIFE call and say she thinks you are suicidal then. That way there is no blame on you and you get your help. I don’t think anyone can FORCE you to take medication unless you are a danger to yourself AND others and are in a facility where your medication intake is monitored and enforced.
You know, being forced to get help via a therapist is not a bad thing if you are like me and sometimes feel undeserving of help or reluctant to “bother” others with your problems. Get the help you need and don’t let people scare you out of it! Even if its hard at first what would you rather? Some people in your buisness HELPING you or to succumb to your illness and leave behind the people who love you?
Well that’s ususal made in the 80s. They usually
take you to dart general, then they take your blood and drive you across the street to the NS. Maybe they found you were calmed down and where you had kids there to take care of, they thought it would be easier not to take you in. Once you’re certified, you’re drugged against your will and put in solitary confinement. You’ll need lawyers to get out of the hospital…they ruin your life, then you need to go on welfare to afford all the drugs you will be forced to continue taking. You can’t work or function on these debilitating sped meds. So you become very numb and vegetative (you can’t feel anything happy, sad or depressed ) till you die at the ripe old age of er 50 cuz long term usage of psychiatric meds lowers lifespan. There have been studies that mental disorders including depression is caused by lack of certain vitamins. If your body is lacking something, Vit b or D or zinc whatever, it will make you act differently. Also if you’re hungry or don’t eat well or enough and don’t sleep enough. Do what you can do, don’t take the drugs. You don’t want to go down that road -they are a bitch to get off.
Always best to deal with your problems yourself for sure. When you invite government agencies into your life it’s definitely risky buisness but sometimes the lesser of two evils!