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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Inpatient = check yourself in and stay there for a while for emergency patients.
Outpatient = get a referal from your doc and visit a psychatrist.
Well if the service was free, I don't know what to say. I know that with outpatient services mental health services I was looking at a 12-18 month wait time - that was with my family doc's referal - I read the letter they sent back to me.
However, I was able to go through the University's service and they only had a 1 month wait time for it.
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That's pretty unfortunate... It was definetely an outpatient service. At the time, If I had to wait that long who knows what would've happened...
I can give you the name of the doctor and clinic that I saw, maybe you got referred to the wrong place? Or I was just lucky. Because it was during the peak time (around Christmas) and honestly no longer than a week until I made my first consultation.
Then I went once a week for almost 6 months, to once every month, to once every 3 months to now once every 6 months.
My doc is just an awesome guy, i'd consider him a genius actually. He's more a mentor now than anything. He's a little on the alternative side of things, no anti-depressants. Instead I take Omega-3's and a very mild sedative for times when I experience anxiety, combined with breathing excercizes and mindful meditiation and understanding why you feel the way you do.
I don't think I spent more than 15 minutes talking about my problems with him, it's not like that. It's all about understanding the way you feel and trying to change your brain's natural instincts to perform differently.
It's a long process but an effective one.