Oct 29-4, 2008

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I have stayed away from things like acupuncture, rolfing, aromatherapy, etc., because I prefer to have treatments that my insurance will cover. Still, I am open minded. Are some of these therapies actually covered by most plans? If so, which ones?

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I need to get a prescription of a antidepressant/anti anxiety. Really bad, it’s crippling.

I have no medical insurance and I can’t get medical or anything like that.

I have contacted the local agency that deal with this and they referred me to a clinic.So I asked them but they say they don’t cover "Treatment for mental disorders, alcoholism or drug addiction."

Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction? I’m looking for something in the greater Sacramento Area.

and before anyone says I need counseling first, I’ve tried it and it didn’t help…I don’t think I can actually get to another counselor anyways with this anxiety.

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My husband was diagnosed with depression 6 years ago. He has been on several types of medication, they all work for a while and then they just STOP. I have studied alternative medication for 2 years. My husband really doesn’t want to be on the pills anymore, so I have been giving him the Sam-E supplements along with St Johns Wort and a Stress tab with energy. I am wondering what else I could be doing. I was giving him a Kava/valerian supplement for his anxiety but recently he started to state that he was exhausted, so I started giving him the stress tabs instead. They are like an energy vitamin with iron. Does anyone know anything that can help me, I am doing the best I know how. Do homeopathic clinics take insurance?
Although I appreciate the Godly sermon, I know that depression is a combination of a chemical imbalance in the brain and specific deficiencies. My husband was born an oddly "sad" child. His parents went to church, his mother was fully devoted to him. Lack of God and family has nothing to do with the reason my husband has been depressed his entire life. They thought it was just who he was and let it go, but when he was 26 he went to a doctor and was told he was depressed. He is very different without his medication, I’m not sure the alternatives will work for him, but we are trying.

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My brother is homeless, he is an alcoholic and he has been to rehab hundreds of times(more than I could even estimate) over the last 20 or 30 years without ever paying a dime. I pay 00 a month for my blue cross-blue shield family plan. I pay a 500 dollars copay for each person of my family before the insurance will even begin to cover anything. It is a 500 dollar copay for each person and for each part of the program, 500 prescription 500 major medical and 500 regular blue cross each. Why do people who are in jail or homeless or useless get better treatment than my family who work. what the heck and why am I so bitter? ha

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I have a panic disorder and a psychotic disorder. My mother is drinking herself to death and my father is going senile. I have a supportive by very pushy girlfriend. What can I do with my mother? She will not go into treatment and right now she’s laying in her chair drunk and vomiting. My father can do nothing but help as much as he can. My girlfriend is good to me but she pushes me to get off of my medication and pushes me into extremely uncomfortable situations in order to try to break my illness.
Right now I’m getting a cold and I am freaking out. I have no health insurance and my medication is running out. Please help me. I’d commit suicide if it weren’t for my girlfriend and my own fear of death.

The twist is that I’m 20, my grandparents adopted me and my real mother just moved out(she doesn’t drink but is very ill with depression). Now no one can take care of my while my adopted parents suffer. I just want to die, there’s no one I can turn to. I don’t know how to live a normal life like everyone else. please help me.

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Here is my situation. I have struggled w/ achohol for about eight to ten years. I am currently in treatment to regain control of my life. Needless to say it has taken it’s toll on my marraige.
I have had a series of events occur in the last six months to put me in a pretty bad depression to which has driven me to drink harder to cope w/ daily life( loss of job, loss of insurance, totaled car, and much more), and to be able to sleep. Which has also made things worse with my wife. She keeps telling me that I need to be happy w/ myself before I can be happy w/ others (her). But the way I feel, being a good husband and a good father IS what makes me happy, but if she is not willing to not be so hard headed how can I be happy? It is hard to relay the entire situation but it is an endless cycle of depression, alcohol, argument, unwillingness to look at this from a different view point, and not knowing how to help one another. My question is how can I get her to listen and to me & hear me?
The ansewers i have recieved have been pretty harsh. Like I said it is a hard story to tell. We have been together for about 7 years, and married for 2. Now she still drinks to in spite of my problem (not as intense as me but drinks still the same even though she said she would’nt. Me y’all don’t get what it I’m asking. Advice on how to be a real love agian and how to get her to at least get her to hear me out!!!

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He got out of the Army 3 years shy of 30 YEARS! Where he would have been able to get FULL benefits. This was back in the 1990’s.( a result of alcohol )
He has BAD dreams and cannot be in public places very long without getting angry…. Is this post traumatic stress syndrome? He cant hold a job, cant sleep for days, gets very bad shakes, very, very angry, when he doesn’t have a drink.
He lives in the Washington DC area and there is Walter Reed hospital( a VA hospital ) But he doesn’t have ANY insurance and NO job.

…Please help..is there any free help for him as a former military officer? He is an alcoholic and really needs treatment.. quickly
He wasnt "booted out". I have seen the papers stating "honorable discharge"…Its one of the things he is MOST proud of.
Please no more replys like "Yogis"…just simple minded..
This is my friends life! And Im trying to help since he has no family ( or no family who cares anymore )

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If we go to jail for 90 and then they allow us to spend the additional 90 days in a 90 days in an inpatient alcoholism treatment program, do we have to pay the cost?

My insurance for the military is about to run out and I haven’t been to my last court date yet…its been postponed and I’m really nervous I’m going to have to stay in jail for the full 180 days and watch all the growing I’ve done in the last two years go straight down the drain.

any information on Gloucester country jail or what to expect regarding my third dui would be great.

It happened about two years ago and they postponed it (put it on hold) so that I could go to Iraq and now upon my return im going straight to jail.

Talk about a punishment and a half.

First time in my life I’ve got it together and now im about to lose it all.

I know it’s my own fault and I take responsibility for it but I can’t tell you how many times a day I just don’t even want to see what day two holds for me. I single handedly destroyed the rest of my life.

Does anyone also know if VA covers this type of cost.

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My pop was diagnosed with celiac not too long ago, and since it’s a genetic disorder, there’s a good chance that i have it too.
It would make sense since i have experienced some of the complications and symptoms associated with the disorder.
i haven’t been tested myself, because i don’t currently have insurance.
but either way, i’m not willing to give up wheat.

partly because it’s tasty. but mostly because it’s been subsidized like crazy and it’s CHEAP. and i;’m a college student, and therefore, poor.

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Have given up on AA and have no money for yet another treatment center. I’m truly desperate.
No insurance. Unemployed. Have tried the one state-run program in my city and left after a rape-atttempt after being there for less than 24-hrs. I ran and they took no responsibility..said It’s something you have to deal with in treatment. Tell me I’m wrong…

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I need help !! How can I get inpatient treatment for alcoholism with out having health insurance? I am so sick of drinking that i’d commit a misdemeanor just to get locked up for a few days as long as it’s not anything real bad. Anyone known anybody that might have went thru some thing similar? Any help in this matter i’d be very thankful!! I got bad anexity problems, so going to AA meetings are almost out of the question.

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