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I’m Myers Medeiros.
I was impromptu discharged from intensive out patient at the OCD and Anxiety treatment center, and with remaining bills and still a critical need for immediate care, I need more help. I have severe PTSD, OCD, and ARFID which now threaten my life in a very real way.
All funds go towards medical bills and paying for further treatment.
more info:
For the better part of nearly six years, i’ve been fighting an uphill battle against severe PTSD, OCD, and ARFID. After my abusive relationship and a workplace sexual assault between the years of 2015-2020, my already difficult situation became worse. My mental illnesses quickly affected my physical health, and in the past year i have accidentally lost 20+ very crucial lbs, and feel the effects of it daily. Along with management of my mental health, I’ve had to seek treatment for the physical side effects as well. I have suffered damage to my stomach and intestinal lining that causes me daily pain and further drives me from eating. My mental illnesses have driven me to high risk behaviors. I have struggled with a severe addiction to self harm since childhood, and in the recent years has amped up gruesomely. My quality of life is terrible and I am unable to keep myself safe. Suicidal ideation has manifested in a way it hasnt for a long time, maybe ever, in me. Where I feel as though I cannot ever win, and that despite the love I feel for and from others, I am never happy or content. Despite my age, I am still living at home with my mom and stepdad.
I have been completely uncovered from any kind of health insurance. Before the start of this year, I acquired health insurance. I began treatment at the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center. After an intake appointment, they recommended that I do their Trauma Therapy program. An eight to twelve week, five days a week intensive outpatient program (more details on treatment below) that focuses primarily on PTSD and incorporates treatment on anything else in tangent (ARFID, OCD). The program is based on exposure therapy, DBT, and group settings. Being in that program for the five weeks that I could was already life changing. The skills they taught, the clients in my group, and the CA’s and therapists who work there, were some of the most helpful tools and supports I have ever experienced.
Due to where I am of emotional instability and all friends/IRL supports being out of state, the clinic was my safe haven. For three hours every day, I was in a place where i was unconditionally treated as a human with worth. Every day, even the hardest ones where I would bawl my eyes out, I would leave feeling like I was making myself better. Now, that’s gone. I was only insured for the two weeks prior to treatment starting, and then was again uncovered.
I have been discharged from treatment. Nonetheless during an intense period of exposures, along with (personal) horrible news, I lost treatment without an understanding. As we were constantly talking with billing and gaining financial aid plans of paid installments, we ended up owing about 10,000 USD that we do not have.
I need to return to treatment as soon as possible, and this is time sensitive and I feel as though my life is on the line. Whether it’s a share, a dollar, or whatever, anything and everything is appreciated.
QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE AND ANSWERS YOULL NEED!
WHY IS THIS TREATMENT SO EXPENSIVE/WHAT MAKES IT SO SPECIAL?
I have been riddled on that a lot lately. I can understand, given that from another perspective that this sort of therapy would surely be available for cheaper somewhere else. There is no nowhere else like the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center.
The intensive outpatient program/IOP I was in, several hours every weekday, focused on group settings combined with private. A group setting is crucial in an anxiety therapy environment. Group is held to a standard of accountability, for yourself and others. They become active supports and crucial play in exposure therapies, offering advice and guidance rather than reassurance.
We are taught Dialectical Behavioral Therapy/DBT skills. The skills focus on crucial skills such as emotional digestion, being in the present moment, stress management, communicative effectiveness, and self compassion. Everything we learned is applied daily. Clinical assistants and clients alike utilize the skills constantly during session, in goal of creating healthy behaviors outside of treatment.
The most critical therapy is the exposure therapy. The clinic provides a safe place for patients to test their triggers and anxiety, and to learn how to cope with the uncertainty of life. Exposures are constructed between a therapist and their client, and neutralizing behaviors that are used to avoid or negate emotions are noted. Exposures can be just about anything, but to put it simply, it’s putting the hypothesis of fear to the test. For example, if someone with car crash trauma were doing an exposure therapy, a client could either be assigned to discuss the events of the trauma, walk on the sidewalk, use a crosswalk by busy traffic, or observe nongraphic images of car wrecks. The clinic provides a safe place for people to feel out and process the fear, and process the reality as well. The clinics motto, now engrained in my mind for ever, ‘Live Uncertain’.
Anything below the goal will be happily accepted still, and every single cent goes towards treatment and nowhere else.
WHAT SHOWS IF IT WORKS? DO YOU GET CURED?
The OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center have a substantial way of marking progress in treatment. Clients take daily homework sheets where we catalogue our management at home. How long we slept, if we ate, if medication was taken, and if exposures and skills were practiced effectively. Once a week, we take an additional screening test where we mark our experiences on scales based on the previous seven days. The questions are based on sometimes daily experiences, centered around the experience of avoiding triggers, isolating from people, feeling detached, and events of emotional flooding. Along with these tests, we see our therapists more than weekly where we set goals and identify road bumps. All of the data taken from these is used to calculate a score of symptom reduction. In a short 8-12 week timeframe, an most clients average a whopping 50-70% symptom reduction. Aftercare is provided as well. I feel that a symptom reduction so significant speaks for itself, and some patients even no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis afterwards.
In short, No, I do not get cured, but this is saving my life. Insulin doesnt cure diabetes, but it helps your body stay healthy and alive so therefore its necessary. Same goes here.
WHY CANT YOU USE WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY LEARNED?
The DBT skills ive learned are, without a doubt in my mind, are largely effective. They have started to become part of my natural thoughts. But, because of my interruption in treatment at a crucial time, I do not have the support system to hold me accountable or a safe place to practice them in. The friends in my group held me accountable to practicing them, and I to them. Without completing treatment and losing it all, I have no will nor ability to utilize them. I feel trapped every day. I won’t always feel like that, and thats through continuing/returning to my treatment. Though I cannot practice my skills, the clinic focuses heavily on teaching the transition of using what we learn from the building to real life. I did not get to that part, unfortunately.
ANYTHING ELSE?
Not really, but if you would like to know more about me, thats here. I love horror, with Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and Evil Dead 2013 being some of my most favorites. I’m an artist, I love drawing the human form and ilithids from dnd. I have an amazing partner Im LD with. I work at a clinic for children with autism, focused on behavioral development. I love my job and everything I do there. I have a cat named Juno.
I was impromptu discharged from intensive out patient at the OCD and Anxiety treatment center, and with remaining bills and still a critical need for immediate care, I need more help. I have severe PTSD, OCD, and ARFID which now threaten my life in a very real way.
All funds go towards medical bills and paying for further treatment.
more info:
For the better part of nearly six years, i’ve been fighting an uphill battle against severe PTSD, OCD, and ARFID. After my abusive relationship and a workplace sexual assault between the years of 2015-2020, my already difficult situation became worse. My mental illnesses quickly affected my physical health, and in the past year i have accidentally lost 20+ very crucial lbs, and feel the effects of it daily. Along with management of my mental health, I’ve had to seek treatment for the physical side effects as well. I have suffered damage to my stomach and intestinal lining that causes me daily pain and further drives me from eating. My mental illnesses have driven me to high risk behaviors. I have struggled with a severe addiction to self harm since childhood, and in the recent years has amped up gruesomely. My quality of life is terrible and I am unable to keep myself safe. Suicidal ideation has manifested in a way it hasnt for a long time, maybe ever, in me. Where I feel as though I cannot ever win, and that despite the love I feel for and from others, I am never happy or content. Despite my age, I am still living at home with my mom and stepdad.
I have been completely uncovered from any kind of health insurance. Before the start of this year, I acquired health insurance. I began treatment at the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center. After an intake appointment, they recommended that I do their Trauma Therapy program. An eight to twelve week, five days a week intensive outpatient program (more details on treatment below) that focuses primarily on PTSD and incorporates treatment on anything else in tangent (ARFID, OCD). The program is based on exposure therapy, DBT, and group settings. Being in that program for the five weeks that I could was already life changing. The skills they taught, the clients in my group, and the CA’s and therapists who work there, were some of the most helpful tools and supports I have ever experienced.
Due to where I am of emotional instability and all friends/IRL supports being out of state, the clinic was my safe haven. For three hours every day, I was in a place where i was unconditionally treated as a human with worth. Every day, even the hardest ones where I would bawl my eyes out, I would leave feeling like I was making myself better. Now, that’s gone. I was only insured for the two weeks prior to treatment starting, and then was again uncovered.
I have been discharged from treatment. Nonetheless during an intense period of exposures, along with (personal) horrible news, I lost treatment without an understanding. As we were constantly talking with billing and gaining financial aid plans of paid installments, we ended up owing about 10,000 USD that we do not have.
I need to return to treatment as soon as possible, and this is time sensitive and I feel as though my life is on the line. Whether it’s a share, a dollar, or whatever, anything and everything is appreciated.
QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE AND ANSWERS YOULL NEED!
WHY IS THIS TREATMENT SO EXPENSIVE/WHAT MAKES IT SO SPECIAL?
I have been riddled on that a lot lately. I can understand, given that from another perspective that this sort of therapy would surely be available for cheaper somewhere else. There is no nowhere else like the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center.
The intensive outpatient program/IOP I was in, several hours every weekday, focused on group settings combined with private. A group setting is crucial in an anxiety therapy environment. Group is held to a standard of accountability, for yourself and others. They become active supports and crucial play in exposure therapies, offering advice and guidance rather than reassurance.
We are taught Dialectical Behavioral Therapy/DBT skills. The skills focus on crucial skills such as emotional digestion, being in the present moment, stress management, communicative effectiveness, and self compassion. Everything we learned is applied daily. Clinical assistants and clients alike utilize the skills constantly during session, in goal of creating healthy behaviors outside of treatment.
The most critical therapy is the exposure therapy. The clinic provides a safe place for patients to test their triggers and anxiety, and to learn how to cope with the uncertainty of life. Exposures are constructed between a therapist and their client, and neutralizing behaviors that are used to avoid or negate emotions are noted. Exposures can be just about anything, but to put it simply, it’s putting the hypothesis of fear to the test. For example, if someone with car crash trauma were doing an exposure therapy, a client could either be assigned to discuss the events of the trauma, walk on the sidewalk, use a crosswalk by busy traffic, or observe nongraphic images of car wrecks. The clinic provides a safe place for people to feel out and process the fear, and process the reality as well. The clinics motto, now engrained in my mind for ever, ‘Live Uncertain’.
Anything below the goal will be happily accepted still, and every single cent goes towards treatment and nowhere else.
WHAT SHOWS IF IT WORKS? DO YOU GET CURED?
The OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center have a substantial way of marking progress in treatment. Clients take daily homework sheets where we catalogue our management at home. How long we slept, if we ate, if medication was taken, and if exposures and skills were practiced effectively. Once a week, we take an additional screening test where we mark our experiences on scales based on the previous seven days. The questions are based on sometimes daily experiences, centered around the experience of avoiding triggers, isolating from people, feeling detached, and events of emotional flooding. Along with these tests, we see our therapists more than weekly where we set goals and identify road bumps. All of the data taken from these is used to calculate a score of symptom reduction. In a short 8-12 week timeframe, an most clients average a whopping 50-70% symptom reduction. Aftercare is provided as well. I feel that a symptom reduction so significant speaks for itself, and some patients even no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis afterwards.
In short, No, I do not get cured, but this is saving my life. Insulin doesnt cure diabetes, but it helps your body stay healthy and alive so therefore its necessary. Same goes here.
WHY CANT YOU USE WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY LEARNED?
The DBT skills ive learned are, without a doubt in my mind, are largely effective. They have started to become part of my natural thoughts. But, because of my interruption in treatment at a crucial time, I do not have the support system to hold me accountable or a safe place to practice them in. The friends in my group held me accountable to practicing them, and I to them. Without completing treatment and losing it all, I have no will nor ability to utilize them. I feel trapped every day. I won’t always feel like that, and thats through continuing/returning to my treatment. Though I cannot practice my skills, the clinic focuses heavily on teaching the transition of using what we learn from the building to real life. I did not get to that part, unfortunately.
ANYTHING ELSE?
Not really, but if you would like to know more about me, thats here. I love horror, with Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and Evil Dead 2013 being some of my most favorites. I’m an artist, I love drawing the human form and ilithids from dnd. I have an amazing partner Im LD with. I work at a clinic for children with autism, focused on behavioral development. I love my job and everything I do there. I have a cat named Juno.