One disturbing trend occurring lately is the number of older people getting diagnosed with mental health issues. I work with someone who squealed like a piglet to his urgent care… yes, urgent care doctor, and got put on a pill. At first, he couldn’t be prouder of himself. He got what he wanted… unfortunately for him, he has no idea that if you mention mental health issues to your doctor he/she/they (for you CA republicans out there) is required to put you on something. It’s a “cover your butt” for the physician in case you go postal. I found out later that he told the doctor he picked out the knife to kill himself with.
Welp, that’s one way to get on a pill. I think they should have held him for several days for a psych evaluation, but oh well. He then found out he had to see a psychiatrist a handful of times, and obviously this angered him as his healthcare plan didn’t fully cover this. My suspicions for this center around his likely sighting what he “saw on tv or read somewhere online” as his reasoning to be diagnosed. If it sounds fishy to you, it likely sounded fishy to his provider, thus he was going to pay for part of it. I overheard a couple phone calls regarding upcoming appointments and him trying to weasel his way out of them. Again, he probably read about it or saw it on a fictional tv show but hey, it worked so why not try it right?
Like anything else that generation has become famous for, they want their cake, want to eat it too, then when the bill comes, claim there wasn’t enough frosting, and they shouldn’t have to pay. It’s pathetic, but here we are.
I do not really get it. When I was young, you didn’t want to be labeled as being mentally unstable, but now it is like a badge of honor or some weird sympathy card. It’s the latter. They want to play that card when things do not go their way. It’s wild watching him play the card whenever there is trauma in his life, or he feels like avoiding something, but when things are well, he never mentions it. The number of people in general claiming to have mental health issues is staggering. As I mentioned in part 1, its literally the go to… like a get out of trouble-free card.
My favorite part in the saga was when he magically declared himself totally fine and healed and was going to go to this urgent care doctor and get off the pill. I keep labeling the doctor because, in my humble opinion, the urgent care doctor seems to be a “take this and call your primary care physician if this continues” doctor, not someone who should be prescribing things. Especially not prescribing/diagnosing mental health issues. So, I feel this whole thing was an act to begin with. He went there armed with plenty of internet articles and knowledge gained from various tv series episodes. His plan likely would have worked, except for the detail about how he had planned on killing himself. They don’t speak about this in fantasy TV land… no doctor will let you stop taking the pills when you admit that. Risk is too high in this litigious society we live in. Imagine the look on his face upon hearing that. I have a feeling he went doctor shopping after that looking for a yes, but unlike on the latest tv episode, he found no one willing to play ball.
In closing this part, I will say this, how the mighty have fallen! The same generation that called mine; crockpot kids, dumb, stupid, addicted to their phones, social media whores etc. is now going to be known for trying to get on mental health pills. It’s bad. I didn’t think they would go out like this but here we are. The generation that was all about self-individualism, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, make something out of nothing, is now trying to get free government pills. What the heck happened?
The Chief