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oops our system just sometimes deletes critical medicine hahaha, what a gaffe right

Motherfuckers, they're psychiatrists, they know what happens when people miss dosages on critical medicines, right?

Oogh wowee I'm mad at them on your behalf. Hang in there on what I'd objectively like to call this streak of hysterical misfortune/incompetence-it shouldn't fall on you to bear the burden of it. Best of luck getting your medication.

[LordBaal]

In the meanwhile try to... dunno. Well is the weekend. Try to do anything you find pleasure in or grabs your attention enough to distract you?

[wierd]

Depending on the antidepressant (as not all are created equally, and many work in different ways, and that is a good thing), there may be some temporary dietary changes that can supply less potent analog substances, to reduce the effects of the rationing.  Wuthout knowing the drug in specific, i cannot advise further. Normally, purposefully cosuming foods that contain such analogs is contraindicated, as it would throw off the effects of your dosage. In the case of "sudden drop, from sudden stop" because your pharmacy cant get its shit together, whatever coushion you can get is better than the alternative.

I would need to know if the med is a dopamine analog, an SSRI, a GAB pathway agent, etc, to give a suitable list of foids or OTCs that might be effective. Such advice comes with the warning that, again, self medication is frought with pitfalls and is not a game. However, I have seen what happens when meds suddely stop. Professionally i advise taking your meds as prescribed. Humanitarianly, given the circumstance, knowledge is power, and i would give that power where and when it is needed.

[martinuzz]

Personally, I'd go back to the psychiatrist's office and refuse to leave until they get you your prescription. Let them call the police if need be. You're not at fault, they are.

[Frumple]

That, uh. Sounds like a good way to lose your job, stateside, tbh. At best?* Harassing docs for meds until they call the cops is one way to get functionally blacklisted from most academic postings that aren't, like, bottom ladder K-12. If that. Even if you're in the right in some abstract sense. Probably don't do that.

... probably do call often until the prescription is filled, though. As a general thing, if you've got critical medication to fill it's good to check a day or two prior to pickup to make sure nothing's gone sideways. Can be hard to remember to do that if everything else is happening, though.

*Most of the advice I've seen about potentially interacting with cops from enby (or just basically anything on the lgbt etc spectrum, for that matter) folks boils down to "Don't."

[martinuzz]

I forgot the US is not the Netherlands. Over here going to the psych's office and refusing to leave would work, in the case of missing prescription antidepressants almost a week overdue, by error on their (or their computer system's behalf).
Psychiatrists know that errors like that will bite them in the ass if they don't fix them before patients need to start rationing.

Ofcourse, you shouldn't just barge in and say "I'm not leaving until I get my prescription!".
Just gently remind them that they have a duty of care and inform them you'll be in their office's waiting room while they fix the problem.

[MrRoboto75]

my old psych (few years now) stopped seeing me, told me to take a hike and basically didn't care the pills had withdrawal symptoms.  Good thing there's only like two other ones in the area...

[Mathel]

I just had a weird call.

Someone called me, claiming I had booked a pedalo for today 18:00, in a totally different city. She had my name right, and claimed it was already payed.
I checked my account, and at least I was not stolen from.

I assured the caller that I was not comming.

I then looked up the number and checked it against the contacts for the pedalo rental in that city. It did not match.

So either she was pranking me, she was trying to scam me, or she actually works for the rental and someone is impersonating me for some reason.

Edit: It was a prank. I then got a call from the same number, this time from a boy, claiming I would go play with him. He claimed he knew nothing of the previous call, and I could hear laughter in the background.
I then blocked the number.

[Vector]

Yeah, I waited out the day so that I didn't look like I was drug-seeking or badgering them (after faxing the psychiatrist, calling, then visiting in person), then called the pharmacy this morning (prescription not filled yet and they refused to give emergency care), then called the advice nurse at school. She said that if I can wait until an on-call doc is available (probably Monday) (either at school or with the psychiatrist) I can get a one-week prescription while the psychiatrist's office gets their head out of their ass.

I can also go to urgent care but they might not be willing to prescribe psych meds, so I would have to go straight to emergency to get medication on the weekend 9_9 But I should be able to wait til Monday.

And the nurse was very reassuring <3 My friends have been good too.


I have school friends coming over today and tomorrow so I won't be alone, I've contacted my professors to tell them what happened so that I can take some of the stress out of school, and I'm just like. Doing one thing at a time. Gonna do some math and play some vidja I guess, Tetris is supposed to be good for you when you're upset.

[heydude6]

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It's creepy how the pranksters know your real name though.

[Kagus]

*snip*

It's creepy how the pranksters know your real name though.

If you have a number to call, you can generally just google around until you find a database that'll tell you the name that number's registered to.

[Mathel]

*snip*

It's creepy how the pranksters know your real name though.

Not creepy at all. I have been taught to self-identify when called by an unknown number. It would be strange if it was accident, but not for a prank.

[Rolan7]

Interesting.  I don't know why, but I'm in the habit of specifically not identifying myself to unknown callers.  I simply say "Hello", they tend to think I'm "Carl" (which has never been my name) if they aren't a robot, and I say "No, wrong number" and hang up.  Or if they know my legal name I say "speaking" (NOT "yes") and give them about 5 seconds to properly identify themselves.  Then 95% of the time I say "Not interested" and hang up.

Occasionally it's my dad though (his number jumps around due to weird phone company hijinks he gets up to) or, on very rare occasions, my actual bank.
It's often fucking Spectrum, which sucks because I have to listen long enough to confirm that they're just trying to upsell me on the cable TV and their streaming service AGAIN.  I feel sorry for the people in the call center (and obviously I don't take my frustration out on them - it's not like it's their fault personally, neither of us wants this interaction.  If it wasn't them, it'd be someone else).

[LordBaal]

So, you know the moon is fake? It was put there on purpose by the reptiloids so life could evolve in this planet (which is also hollow btw). Then, when dinosaurs were kings (acording to the reptilian folks plans) the anunaki trolled them hard by smashing a meteorite tuned to the exact size and crashed on the perfect place as to extinct all dinosaurs so the age of man could come to pass.

See, this is all true because when China and/or Russia made their own moon landings (so, the moon landing wasn't fake at least, what is fake is the moon itself) they made some atomic tests (as in nuked the moon) and it resonated as a bell. Also both the cosmonauts and astronauts reported the surface was metallic and each steep created reverberation (so no only is hollow but impossibly thin while at it).but of course this was hidden from the public as the reptilians somehow control the governments. Guess the anunaki plan backfired on them, T-rexes had pathetic dexterity anyway.

The rest of the conversation was the usual Jesus was an alien, we are aliens, or aliens slaves, or aliens direct descendants because our dna is unlike anything on the planet, Moses was artificially aged when he climb up for the tablets and from his perspective 30 years went by up there....

My head hurts a bit from all this.

[martinuzz]

They forgot her emails