JFX Health Online & Mental Health

- Chosen by Voters http://www.healthbuy.com/?aid=370236 4 years ago 100% 1 Vote

Check with your local Department of Health and Human Resources. Another good place to try (I know from my own personal experience) is the United Way in your area. They have a program called Family Services, and they actually decide your payments based on income. Of course, no income means no payment. I would call them and go in for the screening and see what they tell you. While none of their staff is usually a psychologist they do have licensed therapists there to help you. They can also refer you to a psychiatrist or psychologist if necessary and help you find one that will help you for free. Good luck. Source(s): Personal Experience 5 years ago thanks

- Chosen by Voters I think it depends on the individual and their illness!One challenge, I imagine, would be for the professional to be able to maintain that professional distance. It might be difficult not to get dragged down, or triggered, by their patients' illnesses. But in the end, it totally depends on the person and how acute their illness is! 4 years ago 100% 1 Vote

All employers have a "health and safety" rule as regards to the well being of their employees – and that should cover ALL aspects of employees "health and safety"; whether that be mental health or physical safety.That being said… employers have always to be vigilant against those who wish to 'milk the system' – like a footballer diving in the penalty area, there are always going to be people who try to play the offside rule to their own advantage. 5 years ago I like the football analogy!

yep! 3 years ago Thats what Ive read.

- Chosen by Voters WOW! Deformed face? Well, I can try and answer this one. A number of years ago, I had a little patch of scabby, dry skin that kept coming up on my lip. And it had been doing this for some time. One of the guys in my office was talking with me one day telling me about some harrowing times he recently had because of his fair skin (I also have fair skin!) and that he had found out some little patches on his head (dry, scaly red patches no less!) were cancer, and how it scared him and what he had gone through. He was so relieved to have gotten it all taken care of and so on. Well I mention my little patch that isn't behaving so well and he took one look and said "You better call the Doctor and get that checked right away!". It kinda scared me, so I made an appointment with his dermatologist right away. The doctor did a thorough examination, but at that little spot immediately took a BIOPSY. I began to fret "What if….." I waited for what seemed to be forever (2 weeks) for the pathology report and sure enough it was cancer! I had to go and see a plastic surgeon as the spot was on the edge of my lip and face, a very noticeable spot, that the dermatologist was uncomfortable preforming a surgery. The plastic surgeon looked it over and was trying to figure a way to take this out without disfiguring my face. It was really a rough time for me, as I had to sit in his office waiting room, while a parade of people he had worked on or needed to work on came and went. Some had been recently operated on and their scars were VERY evident, some had divots in their heads, it was traumatizing to say the least. But I also realized, my life was a stake and if I was able to recover from the surgery and still be able to talk and live my life , I would be fine. We arranged the surgery and there is a small little scar that really, only I can see and others who I point it out to may notice, but in all, I was very lucky to have only a bit of scarring and left with my face intact, not that is THAT pretty, but I like it! So having faced that I could become deformed, yes, it affected me, but I also made a choice, that no matter what came my way, I would be okay if I could still talk. I was willing to trade a scar for my life, I was willing to do whatever it took to just be healthy. Now, a number of years later, on a check up, I was found to have it on the edge of my nose, and I thought "Oh my goodness, this stuff is like a rust shark, it just is going to keep eating at me till I have a plastic nose like Michael Jackson!". Again, I had to face the fact, disfigurement or life? No one will promise you a pretty face after this kind of surgery. I had to prepare for the worst. I would think, the day to day of facing life with a disfigured face might be trying, but the other choice may be to have no life at all. I prefer life! When these moments come in your life, you have to decide, can I do this? Will I do this? Can I face this? Can I deal with this? And you may surprise yourself, that you can be so strong, you can draw faith from places you didn't even know you had. I was lucky, fortunate, blessed, I found courage through faith. I figured if I had God and Jesus with me, I could do anything, as His promise has been to never give me more than I can handle, I prayed on that and stood on that and it held me together to let people I really didn't know, do things to me I didn't want done, and to face something I didn't want to think about! Ithink they call it courage, I call it faith! Hope this helps you! Its really a great question! 4 years ago 50% 2 Votes

- Chosen by Voters Go to your local welfare department. The social workers will help u out. 2 years ago 100% 1 Vote

- Chosen by Voters No. In the 1970's the APA finally got their act together and figured out that homosexuality is neither a sign of mental illness nor deviance. It was then taken out of the DSM so it can't even be diagnosed as such, either. If a doctor still considered homosexuality a psychiatric disorder, they really need to catch up with the times (and get their head out of their ***). 3 years ago 100% 1 Vote 4 people rated this as good

Empower. Do what you can do to give your client, your consumer an *internal* locus of control over their lives. And it has to be more, substantially more, than just pretty words or slogans, ok? You and your partner in their recovery *have to* work on something tangible, real-world, that the consumer can look to and say, "I did this," or at least, "I helped get this done", or "This is something I belong to and feel a part of in a positive way."That last bit is important too…just getting someone back to work at *any old job* doesn't count if said job is a total *grind* from which nothing positive comes–not even the paycheck when said pay leads to a *drastic, income-cliffed and entirely disproportionate* cut in supporting benefits like, oh, getting the health care the consumer *needs* to maintain medication access so that they *can* stay stable enough to work. Trust me, I lost my last job, in part because of stress from a death in my family, but also in *large* part because the health care benefits were *not paying one red cent* of the costs of my meds, forcing me to pay *full costs out of pocket*, which literally devoured one of my whole paychecks each month….(as in meds plus counseling).But I digress. My apologies. Point is, it can't just be *any old thing* that comes along, in terms of jobs or goals. You can't just dictate things and shovel them down someone's throat. Aside from that *not* being about internal locus of control, it is also a highly *negative* thing for someone who frankly *lives* in a whole world *packed to the gills* with negative things lately.If you wish for someone to "buy into" a recovery model….it has to *belong* to them as much as their mental illness does if not more. It has to be a recovery that is *their choice* on their terms. Meaning no One Size Fits All style Cognitive Behaviroal crap, no rubber-band shackles around the wrists, no psuedo-behavioral mental wedgies. No psychologizing social problems that *come with the territory* of mental illness either, like not being able to find meaningful work, or being treated poorly by society (because word gets out, in general, that some folks are "mopes" or "flakes" and more and more lately, those folks, people like me and my neighbors, we get treated like so much trash). No telling people, right off, that anything, any problems they have, are all a "voice" in their heads when damn it, many of us *are not now, nor have we EVER BEEN delusional* in the classical schizophrenic sense. Try just treating people as *people* first, taking what they say at *face value* and not passing judgement for *once*. Yeah….how about that? How about listening to folks for more than five or ten lousy, heavily scripted control-freak minutes at a time, and actually trying to *help them* oh, I dunno, *DO* something they want to do? You know, of a "hopes and dreams" sort of nature…*lol* sorry to be ranty. I have good reasons, ok?But yes….give someone a *reason* to recover. Help people get their lives back in some way. Get them in classes, out and about, doing hobbies they like and can afford, doing whatever work they *can do* and see fit to….this is one of the big, BIG reasons why I can't go along with that Cognitive Behavioral crap, ok? Because it says it's "Behavioral" and yet I *know* my B.F. Skinner….and CBT is *almost all* aversives.So *where* do you get the *rewards* for being in the system and for being the one who does ALL the hard work TO get better? See what I mean?So yes. EMPOWER. Focus on developing an *internal*, consumer-driven locus of control over one's own destiny. Even if it is only in something small….so long as it is something positive *and* meaningful in a concrete, real-world sense, it should work out. Hope this helps you…I wish it had helped me. Source(s): Background: I've struggled with a reluctant and at times negligent local social service system, as an adult, for the past 15 years. With (mostly) bad meds after good ones, and with the occasional rare good counselor. I am in a struggle against depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and what some would call an "avoidant personality" (is it avoidance if the world really *does* suck all around you? *lol*). Long story very short, I was born into a family headed by two *profoundly abusive and neglectful parents* and it's left scar tissue a mile thick. Really, I have more issues than most comic books….email me if you want more details. It's a wonder I even function *at all*, in any sense of the word.And….some five years ago, the local mental health center went on a *recovery* kick much like you describe. I spent the better part of a year, with some friends and colleagues of mine from a local support group, working with this mental health center to co-create a peer-run drop-in center, a casual hang-out and information resource center, run by and *for* folks with mental health concerns. I helped co-manage the thing as a paid facilitator, as a part-time job, for nearly three years, before a) my meds pooped out, b) office politics went completely out of control and ruined my reputation, and c) the CEO of the mental health center got *petty* enough with her grudge against me personally to wear down, and eventually terminate all funding for the thing….as in I got her annoyed with me one day, one time, and between that and the office politics of one other co-worker, it *killed my dream*.And shortly after that, they did a brief stint as a "Catholic organization" (unpopular and a mistake) and then went back to their old control-freakish ways. So much for "recovery" huh? I guess you "therapists" and you "social workers" really would much rather maintain our suffering and keep your jobs. :p Nyeah. *lol* 5 years ago I appreciate your experience and would love to "talk" with you more if that is possible but your e-mail link doesn't work… thank you, and the others, for sharing

- Chosen by Voters Stress,genetics and environment. 2 years ago 40% 2 Votes