Posted by KB on December 1, 2004, at 15:27:20
I saw my pdoc of 3.5 years on monday and he told me he's closing his practice as of friday!!!! Even though I'm not someone who calls their dr. a lot, just knowing he's there has really helped me feel safe and given me some hope that maybe I won't be depressed forever, and I"m really having a hard time coping with this.
I don't know what's going on - he didn't specify, but did make clear that closing his practice wasn't his choice, so I'm worried about him, too. I was fired in july and had to say an abrupt goodbye to a lot of clients, some of whom I had worked with for years, and I know how excruciating that is.
This has been a really hard time for me anyway - facing jail time in a protest case, fired and dealing with stressful new job, having liver problems, grandpa died in August, Dad was diagnosed w/ early Alzheimer's in October, roommate keeps self-injuring, trying to juggle work w/ full time grad school - and this just feels like the proverbial last straw.
I have a mid-term due today and I can't concentrate AT ALL and can't ask for an extension because this IS the extension, and am having really powerful urges to self-injure, which I haven't done for 3+ years.
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