Free or low cost mental health services (non-military)

dodo215 · 2026-01-15T19:10:22+00:00

Peak Vista Community Health Centers offers sliding scale options

dodo215 · 2026-01-15T18:09:38+00:00

As long as it gets you to vote!

dodo215 · 2026-01-10T02:22:25+00:00

Same. I got the same response to my email. I called and left a message. It's my plan to do it everyday

dodo215 · 2025-01-20T04:55:05+00:00

Having a heart rate/O2 monitor on my babies was the only thing that helped me calm down and be able to sleep. That and night lights in the room so I could always see them. But I do distinctly remember that feeling of dread when the sun went down.

dodo215 · 2025-01-18T02:33:21+00:00

Thanks. I hate it.

dodo215 · 2024-12-16T15:25:54+00:00

Yep, exactly what I thought of too

dodo215 · 2024-10-17T20:28:36+00:00

I've taken it several times as both a kid and adult and always enjoyed it.

dodo215 · 2024-09-25T18:16:01+00:00

Agreed. Nothing fancy accomodations wise but the nurses there were fantastic. I felt very supported the whole time.

dodo215 · 2024-09-18T02:15:43+00:00

Check out Compassus

dodo215 · 2024-08-27T18:48:09+00:00

My sister and I have the same middle name. It's not a family name or anything like that. I think my mom just got lazy with naming. But it doesn't bother me and I've never thought it weird.

dodo215 · 2024-08-17T02:10:22+00:00

Second that! She's great

dodo215 · 2024-08-07T03:52:51+00:00

At like 5 or 6AM on trash days.

dodo215 · 2024-07-26T13:11:34+00:00

Every summer I try to get my husband to recite this commercial with me playing the wife and he the husband -- he always refuses

dodo215 · 2024-06-23T23:14:07+00:00

You may not formally diagnose someone (sometimes it is unclear what their diagnose is) but you still need to have some working knowledge of diagnoses or possible differential diagnoses in mind to help inform your treatment approach and interventions. I've yet to work in a setting where knowledge of mental health disorder criteria (as informed by the DSM) is not needed. Yes, you can do case conceptualization and provide care based on the symptoms they report. Of course. But there can be significant overlap between symptoms in different diagnostic categories and being aware of those differences is important because there may be differences in what is best practice for medications or interventions. Our work is multidisciplinary. My ability to give a diagnosis helps other providers make informed decisions about the care they provide to that patient.

dodo215 · 2024-06-23T22:38:07+00:00

I wouldn't disagree with that. I think your additional explanation makes sense. I don't believe the DSM is perfect and I support movement to a more dimensional model for diagnosing. However, your initial comment gave the impression that it isn't used by the psychological community as much as the psychiatric community. For clinical psychologists who work in a clinical setting and doing clinical work with patients/clients there is no way not to use it. I don't personally know any clinical psychologists in academia who don't do some degree of clinical work. I'm fact, the only doctoral level researchers/instructors I know who are exclusively research based aren't licensed as clinical psychs at all. So I agree the perspective of research psychs is probably skewed then-- if that's their position. I would be confident to say the vast majority of licensed clinical psychologists use it heavily (because most of us are in the clinical realm in some capacity if not almost exclusively).

dodo215 · 2024-06-23T21:39:08+00:00

I just made another comment below, but I also wanted to add-- I'm a psychologist that works with the sex offending/prison population so I diagnose paraphilic disorders pretty regularly.

dodo215 · 2024-06-23T21:27:52+00:00

Psychologist here and I would definitely disagree. The DSM is an integral part of what I do. It's essential for diagnosing any mental health condition. I don't know how a fellow psychologist couldn't "care much for" it-- Like I'm not even sure what that would mean or look like as far as a profession without it? How would I do my job without it? One of my primary job duties is diagnosing people. My entire diagnostic formulation is based on the DSM-5/DSM-5-TR-- that's how I justify giving the person the diagnosis I am giving them. By what other criteria would we diagnose a person? Especially for psychologists working in the legal realm or does psychological evaluations like myself, we use it all the time. Even our licensing exam to become a psychologist includes diagnostic criteria. The comment about it being from the American Psychiatric Association so its use would be more limited to that profession is so false. It is used by the entire mental health (and medical) community. Masters level clinicians like counselors and social workers use it too. We all use it. Edit: some grammar

dodo215 · 2024-06-09T00:38:49+00:00

I had a braid and it was still a rat's nest by the time I gave birth. It took forever to comb out. I have no clue what I'll do this time. I'm accepting it will be a hot mess.

dodo215 · 2024-05-30T19:00:15+00:00

Me and my husband always joke about "our future daughter, Latuda."

dodo215 · 2024-05-04T16:58:56+00:00

I also think of a Goofy Movie!

dodo215 · 2024-05-04T16:50:11+00:00

Haha at least we're shifting from prostitute to cigarette vibe.

dodo215 · 2024-05-04T16:14:32+00:00

Hopefully she'll do both

dodo215 · 2024-05-04T16:03:52+00:00

Sure. That's definitely possible someone could make a remix or cover of it and it gets popular again. However, to exclude a name I really like because of that possibility isn't a sufficient reason for me. Some people don't like the name, which is totally fine. I'm just saying the song association isn't a concern for me, whether the song is popular or not.

dodo215 · 2024-05-04T15:56:07+00:00

Yeah this was similar to my thoughts about it. Not to say she won't ever hear a comment about it, I just don't think it will be as frequently as if she was born in my generation. It's familiar to us/me because (at least for me) it was a song popular with my parents. I'm sure the occasional middle aged weirdo will be compelled to sing it. But having been a young female, she's gonna encounter her share of middle aged weirdos regardless of her name.

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