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Oh, my company is more than large and I narrowly escaped a furlough. I am in one of the hardest hit industries by Covid. I will never be able to retire because I lost all my savings in the recession. Now I make less money and won’t be able to afford to retire with SS. All of this just makes the depression worse.. These are the things that make me unsure if the benefits of tms are gone. Are these triggers just so beyond the normal that I would feel sort of ok under different circumstances?
I have FMLA for migraines. We only get 64 hours of sick pay a year and I’ve already used 50. While FMLA protects you, if you go on short term disability, it will use up your FMLA without pay and although they can’t fire you for being on disability, your job is not guaranteed. I do not have this luxury. I so often wish I was married to someone with a well paying job and I could use their insurance for help. It’s not that I don’t want to work, it’s just extraordinarily difficult.
I talked to my therapist about CRM and she wasn’t familiar with it. After looking at it, she did not feel it would be beneficial to my circumstances.
Yes they tapered me for three weeks. I have FMLA for migraines so I wouldn’t have other time to pull from. We have very little skck paid time and I have no second income. Being alone is a huge source of my depression.. I work for a huge company impacted greatly by the pandemic. I’m lucky to have a job even though it doesn’t pay well.. I have to hang onto it and the depression is making it difficult to function so that just adds another worry. I work 10 hour days and had to use vacation because the facility was closed by the time my work day ended. It’s a 30 minute drive each way.
I will not speak to the psychiatrist. Had I known how horrible she would be, I never would have agreed to the place. A coworker recommend it as she had a positive experience and is in complete remission after a year and a half. I did not realize this was a new doctor. The one she had died suddenly. This doctor has had numerous complaint so it’s not just me. If I go for maintenance I do not have to see her. 9 weeks is terribly difficult. I used all of my vacation by breaking them in half days last year. After 4 weeks of treatment I had my first feeling of relief and then my mother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer the next day so I’ve been dealing with that amongst ovid and other things
I just found this website today. ECT terrifies me.
How are you doing? I ask because I finished first week of September and just had a massive setback. I can’t do another full round now and don’t think my insurance would cover it so closely to the end. I don’t even know if it stopped working ( I was never 100 percent) or I’d it’s something else. I’m scared.
How does one find a CRM provider and is it covered by insurance? I finished TMS in September and I took a bad turn 5 days ago. I don’t know if I was triggered or if it just ‘shut off’ I never felt great but did see some benefits. I can do maintenance but insurance doesn’t cover it. It’s $400 a session. They recommend every other week. I’m all alone and could maybe scrape enough for one visit but that’s it. Feeling devastated and frozen. My suicidal thoughts were minimal and Saturday they came on full throttle.
