How To Find A Trauma T?

[Symphony]

On a forum when people often don't identify their gender...

It is for that VERY REASON you shouldn't assign anyone here a pronoun unless you know or have been told it. Someone misgendered me. I corrected them. Respect the requested pronoun. Get over it.

Use "they", use their name. Don't assume. Goes for every single person on the planet.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

Maybe I can be of some help here, being transgender I have had to deal with this too. I learned a long time ago, when ever someone who I had some trust with slipped with the wrong pronoun, and then they approached me to apologize I would tell them don't look at me in terms of gender, refer to me as a or the person. Choosing words that refer to the person sidesteps gender completely and solves this problem which the reality it will happen. Even people who care about us, unconsciously make a slip with the gender pronouns.

 

[joeylittle]

Points all taken. Let's get back on main topic.

@Symphony - has Sheppard Pratt been able to provide any sort of timeline? I suspect that having a clinician/therapist advocating regularily on the clients behalf does make a difference.

(I'm being very lazy and not hunting this info down from other threads - feel free to point my nose in the right direction if it's already all been explained)

 

[Symphony]

Points all taken. Let's get back on main topic.

@Symphony - has Sheppard Prat...

Last I heard for the timeline was the beginning of December I had been on their waiting list for 2 weeks. Most patients (from what I've read online) get there after 3 or 4 weeks on the waiting list.

I was told my diagnosis needed to be clarified (like it was too old or something) and to do IOP. So I did the week before Christmas and IOP said that they weren't the best fit for me (that I should be in a higher level of care) and I agreed. After a week of IOP I quit because it was way too expensive for such little benefit and also no diagnosis clarification.

I spent all of the holidays hunting down clinicians to rediagnose me. My psychiatrist agreed to do it and I got that done over a week ago. I received the summary of my visit and there was literally no change that I could see to my paperwork. So I don't even know if SP is going to get what they need from that.

Meanwhile I've also been interviewing every referral my insurance has given me for a trauma T. The last one I tried to contact on the list seemed like a winner until I discovered a severe conflict of interest (that I'm not willing to reveal here). So, I'm at a loss. I've done everything. I even left SP a message today explaining all of this in further detail. Maybe they'll call me back, maybe they'll contact my referring therapist.

I'm devastated that God hates me this much to make this so f*cking difficult.