BWELLBSTRONGBPD

I've had twenty-plus inpatient psychiatric admissions over a span of twenty-three years. I lived in a supervised residence for three years. I've been in multiple day programs, partial hospitalization programs, and therapy groups. I've experienced psychosis as a result of severe depression. I've had several courses of ECT which resulted in permanent memory loss. I've cut myself, starved myself, been addicted to cocaine and Klonopin. I also tried to kill myself four times... When I was diagnosed in the late 1980's and early 1990's, it was the era prior to managed care, so treatment programs such as long-term units and halfway houses were prevalent and were readily paid for by insurance. It also took some time before the concept of in-network and out-of-network physicians and therapists was put into place. When I was working, I could submit almost any claim and it would be paid... Once the reins of managed care started to tighten around providers, I was able to continue outpatient..

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