Really! Now that my kids are older than 18, the problems I’ve had.
And yes, I do know what it’s like to have a family member with depression. My mom is bipolar and it’s looking like my son is too.
It’s awful trying to speak to my son’s doctors.
My daughter’s both have medical issues, and one is far away at college. Trying just to get appointments for the one away is hard.
Yes, I have had this firsthand experience with family members too.
The all-knowing, all-powerful US Government throws up the Great Wall of HIPAA to prevent those nearest and dearest to the one who is suffering from having ANY sort of constructive dialogue with their doctors and therapists.
Then that same Government can step-in with big spending programs purporting to help them.
Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) had a bill pending to amend HIPAA and make it easier on the families of the mentally ill. It died when Obama decided this would undermine his push for gun control, and he lost all of his Democrat co-sponsors.