Article by Julie Wise
In thinking of our health, we always make sure that we get the best service that our money can afford and, with that, most, if not everyone, would look for affordable medical health insurance that can cover future medical needs such as hospitalization, check-ups and the like. However, with the proliferation of health insurance companies at present, so does the danger in buying a substandard and pretentious insurance plan that would be more of a liability than an advantage. With the way things are, it is important for people to be more cautious in choosing and purchasing health insurance plans.
Affordable medical health insurance, as it is, should be economically beneficial to those purchasing the plan without having to sacrifice the wide range of services that should be able to accommodate a person’s health needs. A comprehensive health insurance plan should be able to cover regular operations up to moderate health cases. Of course, hospital check-ups with health specialists should also be included in the package.
So what makes purchasing a medical health insurance risky? With all honesty, the promise of buying a good priced and all-inclusive health insurance at present time is relatively slim. What with the increasing number of health insurance companies, almost all of them offer affordable medical health insurance plans that fit just about anyone’s budget. The question is: Will the plan they sell be able to cover all of your health needs the moment you require such services?
One more risk in buying health insurance plans is that a good and fairly useful insurance in one state may just be useless in another. Two states may or may not have the same health insurance policies and, thus, may or may not recognize a health insurance that was availed from another state. The coverage of a medical health insurance plan in one state may have to be paid for when in a different state. Now, although this holds true for a lot of insurance plans, there are those that might cost you a bit more but are universally recognized, no matter which hospital you visit or which state you’re in.
Regardless of whether or not you are getting health insurance for yourself and/or for others, remember that it is important that you check for things that could otherwise make your purchase useless and uneconomical. Although there are affordable medical health insurance plans that might look light on the budget, it may not be a bad idea to get something that might cost a bit more, as long as you’re sure that it’ll benefit you in the long run.
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Senior Adviser to the President Valerie Jarrett and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius speak to an audience of parents, advocates, and experts at an Autism Awareness Month Conference at the White House. April 25, 2010.
I'm sorry that you have to deal with all of these mental health professionals trying to mislabel you as having a personality disorder when you clearly do not. It must be incredibly frustrating for you, especially with the terrible stigma that personality disorders like borderline and histrionic have. Nobody wants to be labeled BPD… especially when you don't have it!!
Unfortunately the truth is that some doctors are just plain lazy. They don't want to think hard about it so they just slap on whatever label is easiest to write out based on a few symptoms instead of being thorough. I think what you have been doing – demanding they explain themselves, pointing out that you do not meet the criteria, highlighting the fact that those symptoms they cite also overlap with bipolar disorder – is the best you can do. You are advocating for yourself and that's what you have to do, to make sure you don't lose your coverage because of someone else's laziness.
It may also help if you can try to go to the same facilities in the future, ones that have already seen you in the past. That way they will have your files on hand and they can look back and see, "Okay, she has bipolar disorder, that is what's going on" instead of starting over from scratch and going through the whole bipolar vs. BPD struggle again and again.
As far as switching docs in the future, just have your current psychiatrist send all of your files over to the new doctor. It will save them a lot of time and trouble, and it saves you from having to go through that situation with them. If the new psychiatrist starts questioning the diagnosis, simply ask them on what grounds they are questioning it, and do what you have done in the past – take them to task and show them that they are wrong, and make them do their job properly.
Again, I'm sorry to hear that you have to put up with this crap all the time. Being bipolar myself I also have had the occasional BPD label thrown my way, especially with a history of self harm and a long list of failed drugs. You just have to keep grilling these doctors and making them look at ALL of the facts. I do not meet the criteria for BPD either, and like you my normal psychiatrist and therapist think it is laughable that anyone would even consider diagnosing me as borderline. There is a lot of ignorance out there though, so you have to defend yourself.
Take care, and good luck in the future.
I believe that CPS will not try to take the baby as long as you are meeting your son's basic needs, AND you are trying to get medical help and get medications.
A suicide attempt would definitely cause you to lose him!
I would ask my Ob-Gyn for a referral for post-partum depression. That is a serious disorder caused by hormone imbalances and other factors. PPD can keep you from bonding with your child and vice versa, so try to hold him and talk to him sweetly, no matter how bad you feel.
Wellbutrin is a good anti-anxiety drug, but you need something along with it for the depression. Ask your doctor if he can give you samples for the remainder of the 30 days.
Australia has an organization called MIND that helps people in your situation. See if you can contact them for help.
As long as you are caring for your son and there is no abuse, I doubt that the government would allow CPS to remove a child based on what "might" happen. In the US that would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
If you can't get samples, tell your doctor your situation, and ask him how many pills it would take to safely wean yourself off Wellbutrin. Then you can plan ahead.
You can always go to the hospital in an emergency. They don't expect the money upfront for the visit.
You can always buy half of a prescription, as well. Just tell the pharmacy.
Good luck to you.
@Tracena22 God bless you bro
@Ericbranson3 – ha! I know, it sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But it makes sense when you really dive into it. The problem is, we ‘hear’ it with the filter of our 21st century LITERAL presuppositions. But Revelation is a VERY symbolic book, interpreted best through comparing its spiritual imagery w/ other examples of the same from the Old Testament. If you’re a believer, God’s Name is written in your forehead – but you don’t ‘see’ it. Google ‘mark of the beast’ & “Richard Anthony” for more info.
sigh…. when will people start interpreting the Bible with principles of Hermeneutics? Audience Relevance tells us to first consider the original recipients of Biblical letters – how they would understand and apply what was written TO them. Those letters are not written TO us in the 21st Century, though they may have application FOR us. So who was the beast of Revelation? Caesar Nero or NRWN QSR. Yes, his name adds up to 666 using their gematria. We don’t assign numerical value to letters today
Oh my. I am so sorry for what you have to deal with. If you are in college, you must live in a big enough city that has Behavior Health agencies. If you get hooked up with one, you can get the help you need and medication provided for you. Look up mental health in your phone book or google for it in your area. Please take a deep breath and take it a minute at a time if you have to. Don't even think about suicide. I tried that and almost did die. Now I thank God I survived it. Life will get better for you. Try not to get overwhelmed. I am also shy but opening up is the best thing you can do to try to overcome that. What helps me at times is relaxation CD's. I have thunderstorm ones and nature ones. They also help me fall asleep. Take some time to just sit in the sun and listen to the birds sing. Right now you need to tune in to any simple pleasures to help you ride through this. Hope you feel better real soon.
They are strict because when manic Bipolar can be just as serious as schizophrenia, often including psychosis. Hypomania (mild mania) is when people are very productive but a full blown mania can be very dangerous.
Dear Sarah,
if reaching out to them is difficult and it's not working, it's not your fault, you should focus on your self and how to make every moment count. forgive them and learn how to forgive as it is process. life always surprise us with experience that shape us but always make us stronger, it takes lot of pressures and heat from the earth core to make a diamond and if it is not for that pressure and heat it would then be a pencil lead.
focus on goals and dreams, pursue them and when you fall, get up and dust your self and keep moving, it always better to light a candle than to curse the darkness..quitting is never an option, the LAW of life states that" after despair, many hope flourish just as after darkness thousands of suns open and start to shine".
@Tracena22 so when did nero force All to take the mark, number or name so they could buy and sell. i guess Jesus already came back hundreds of years ago after the 7 year tribulation huh. where’s your common sense man?
You are concentrating on the symptoms, not the problem. You have a bigger problem than you want to admit. You can get disproportionately angry at benign things (parents' interactions; friends' interactions) but when you flip out over a guy "staring at you" you've gone way beyond the bounds of reason. With the anger that you described earlier in the evening (parents and friends) when you saw this "staring guy" I would just venture to guess that he was just returning YOUR stare because you were a ticking bomb ready to go off. Just keep going on the course that you are and you won't need to decide what to do….. the court will decide for you. Then when you are in a jail cell, you'll need to control who you stare at or you might get pounded to death. The thing I've noticed about guys like you is that although they say that they can't control their anger – that they "just happen" to lose control on smaller guys – not larger, meaner guys. They change in prison, though. You'd better get help, no matter what the expense is in money or pride, before you learn the hard way that there are ALWAYS bigger, "badder" dudes than you and then your macho stories will take on a different slant. Your family and friends may cut you slack but a judge won't.
Yeah dude Biploar is an issue but really what you are up against is pure numbers and that is all. The problem is when you wanted to join the last time it was probably during the time they were giving everyone a waiver from ex felons to those with paranoid schizophrenia. There are so many flippin people wanting to get in now for lack of other employment opportunities right now getting any waiver is near impossible and any hint of a possiblity of a problem whether physical or mental that big red flag shoots straight up the flag pole. It is not the recruiters fault but they have seen their share of folks with more minor issues being sent back home Dq'd and in reality I would let you know up front too that there is a possibility you are going to get shot down and that is even if I can get my Command to allow me to send you up on the floor to MEPS. Those recruiters have bosses too and really, they are on the very last low rung of it when it comes to Recruiting Bn's. I'm sure you feel up to it but I can tell you the Docs at MEPS will send you packing if they think you sneezed out the wrong nostril ten years ago and the recruiters know this and well, there are a lot of them getting tired of being threatened with bad paper for "why did you send this person up to MEPS knowing they had xyz in there past?" type of crap. It's not you, it's not the recruiters it is just the numbers. The number of folks with zero issues, mentally, physically, and legally far outweigh and out number the ones that do and therefore those with zero issues are taken it and those with anything from minor to moderate issues are sent back home. You have to realize too that they have already met their recruiting goals for the entire Fiscal year 2011 back in May. This is July. They started filling for Fiscal year 2012 in May of this year. It's just like any other job, one opening and five thousand apply and they can pick and choose who they want. I know that is not what you want to hear but it's what is happening right now. But if the current administration has their way and starts cutting military pay, watch how fast the services drain, then you'll find a slot when they can't get anyone to step up and get shot at for a measly wage when McDonalds pays better.
You left out socialist in your tags.
The ironic part about this is that the same company that refuses to release it’s activities in WW2 and the identification of Jews set for special treatment, is pioneering this technology. That company is only interested in money and will do what such companies do to stay in the game.