So I was "diagnosed" with panic disorder May 22nd with mild ptsd. I had a follow up appointment Tuesday with a lady at the clinic who referred me to counseling and cheap doctors.

WELL, needless to say being poor in America and NOT having children makes a bit difficult to get any sort of health treatment so I was on the phone ALL day yesterday. I called the counseling (it was a Christian Group) they got me in within an hour for patient intake and I now have 5 sessions that I have to set up so that is GOOD.

I then called the local family care that community mental health referred me to and I get a message (this was around 11am)

"if you do not have insurance, you must call at 8am on the last day of the month and we will shedule you in, it is first come first serve"

well I was 3 hours too late. I finally got ahold of a real person and told them I had a pamphlet to apply for Medicaid if that made any difference, I didn't really want to apply but if need be I would if I could get an appointment. They told me they could not make me an appointment unless I was approved for Medicaid....super.

So I was on the phone for an hour trying to get ahold of my social worker thinking maybe she had other options but I couldn't get ahold of her.

Then I remembered about another Christian based ministry that offered a free health clinic every Thursday night, I called FMIL and asked her to go with me....

we sat in the waiting room at the health department for 4 hours! got there at 5, didn't get seen by the doctor until 9pm!

It was free though so I can't complain but geeze that sucked lol.

In the end, I now have 5 sessions of therapy and a months prescription for Zoloft. The doctor said to come back in 3 weeks and we'll go from there.

This road to treatment has been a tough one but I feel good knowing that I'm finally getting somewhere with this. I'm just happy BM hasn't raised her ugly head through all this sheesh!