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Well, I don't quite get it, but anything is welcome in this part of healthcare.

I'm looking for a psychiatrist and am being told they're not taking on new patients or that I need to wait 3 months for an appointment.

I just need a prescription for a medication that I had before. While being forced to pay for health insurance, being told that this country has great healthcare, losing my voice (literally), and trying hard to get myself to jump off a bridge, I can't help but find the whole thing a bit ridiculous.

Best of luck to you, and try looking into an European expansion. Things aren't as good as they might seem.

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Hey, if you have suicidal ideation or self harm tendencies and can't find help, please go to the emergency room. They can help you there.

Also, here's the link for the Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Please find help and take care of yourself.

Thank you for providing this resource here :)

I cannot say that I understand what you are going through right now, but I truly wish you all the best.

We are really trying to help with the issue of access just as you reference here. Wait times are too high to see a psychiatrist so 1) how can we unlock a latent supply of these professionals (by way of their excess time) and 2) in what cases can we substitute these professionals with others whose supply is greater and who can provide similar functions.

Depending on the state that you live in, a psychiatric NP can get you that prescription at a lower cost to you and, more importantly, quicker. We want to allow other organizations to do that for their patients using our providers.

Hang in there? Maybe you can find a primary care doc who can write you a prescription to hold you over for 3 months… Hopefully a psychiatrist will have a cancellation you could grab sooner.

You need to go to your pcp and talk to them about suicidal tendencies. They can priority schedule you. PCP to provider schedules going will give higher priority to high risk patients

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