How Much of My Mind?

Today, I had the first meeting with a psychiatrist. I'm inquiring as to whether my problems getting a career going, and preceding troubles, constitute a mental health disability. There is just enough evidence there to make me cautious. And just enough bureaucratic hurdles to make the idea problematic.

I don't want to attempt to prove to anybody that I'm something I'm not. I'm not doing this to get out of work for the rest of my life. I'm not doing this to get back at the system.

So, I have to meet with the State Department of Human Services on Friday to see if I qualify for Medicaid, which (my pre-screener tells me) is unlikely. Then I have to go back to the psychiatric clinic and work out how we're paying for my sessions, and whether more sessions are needed.

I'm afraid of this being an expensive wild goose chase. But if it is, it is.

FP