Mental Health Recovery Blog

your psychiatrist is nuttier than you? Yesterday I went for my med consult with Dr. Rick. My regular therapist sent a letter describing my “pathology” so this initial interview should have only taken a half hour to an hour. Well, he didnt have the letter and so it took an hour an a half. I had to apologize to the next guy who had to wait another half hour. To summarize the “feel” of the office the exchange with the next guy went like this: {leaving Dr’s office} Me to Next guy- “Sorry you had

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Mental health and addition agencies from around Victoria are pooling together for Mental Health Week, with a special event Tuesday (May 5). From 7 to 9 p.m. a Mental Health Fair, hosted by Progressive Recovery Group, will take place at S.J. Willis school.

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Skagit County has set the stage to pull out of the mental health support network that serves five area counties and has operated out of Skagit County since 1996. Citing a legal dispute over…

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Like many people who run up against the criminal justice system while dealing with a serious mental health condition, David Smith [not his real name] felt that neither the police nor the prison service were equipped to deal with him. Smith has schizoaffective disorder.

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