MICELLO'S MUSINGS is the blog of a woman touched by the "gift" of bipolar disorder. Her random thoughts on how mental illness affects her life. That's right...I am affected by it but it does not define me. Constant challenges of the disorder make it difficult to find and keep the real "me.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE MENTALLY ILL
I cannot bear the thought of being in a room with anther indiviual who will likely play the TV all day, have company in and out and place me in a situatin where I have no privacy. Right now i live in a 4 bedroom home which i have to myself all day. But what happens when I need assisted care? My plan was a Long Term Care insurance plan which would allow me to go to assisted living in my own apartment.....not the miserable nurisng home condition I described above. I am a quiet, single, bipolar person with not many friends. I do not get lonely by myself. I can enertain myelf for month.s....i am creative in numerou ways and an avid reader...listen to all kinds of music and rarely watch television. Pus I am active on the computer, genealogy, and other things. I need my privacy and my space or I will lost my mind. Now I learn that the UNDERWRITERS OF AN INSURANCE COMPANY ARE GOING TO DECIDE MY FATE BASED ON A MEDICATION PRESCRIBED BY A LICENSED PSYCHIATRIST WHO HAS STATED THAT THE REASON IS AN OFF LABEL USE...............................I AM GOING TO FIGHT SOMEONE ON T HIS. IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SITUATION, PLESE CONTACT ME. THIS IS DISCRIMINATION TO DENY INSURANCE BSED ON A MEICATION THAT IS USED TO TREAT SCHIZOOPHRENIA.
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Assisted living for mentally ill is the best solution for mental illness.
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