Re: Accessing Services - Gail

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Gail,

Call your insurance and find out what facility they have in their insurance

that does this kind of treatment. If they do not have any you can have

grounds to ‘force’ your insurance to pay for it as they do not provide it

within their ‘circle’.

Tracey

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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:58 AM

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Subject: Accessing Services

Our 16 year old son has recently been diagnosed as having Severe OCD.

He continues to spiral downward, becoming less functional and

increasing in his OCD behaviors. Although we live in Houston, we are

having a very difficult time accessing services. We finally got an

appointment with an OCD Specialist who, like the psychologist who

evaluated him, recommended inpatient treatment. The only facility in

all of Houston that treats OCD is the Menninger Clinic, which does

not accept our insurance. The cost is enormous and beyond our

affordability for the 60-90 day in-patient treatment.

Our son is becoming very volatile, quickly transitioning between

being his very pleasant self to being debilitated by his OCD to being

angry and verbally abusive. He is unstable and depressed at

unpredictable times and so we are now unable (or unwilling) to leave

him alone.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to how to access affordable

in-patient treatment that will really help him with his OCD? Are

there clinical trials or programs that are supported by generous

foundations?

Any suggestions, leads, advice are welcome!

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[Guest guest]

That's great news Gail. I'm glad your son will be able to access the

intensive treatment program.

In Canada, if after a period of time, generally several years, no

treatments have been found to work, and the OCD is severely

disabling, then our provincial insurance may pay for the intensive

treatment program in the US, as we have nothing in Canada. Trouble is

by that point some are so disabled they can't even get to these

facilities, or it's so severe it's pretty hard to conquer... Earlied

the intervention the better from what I've seen/heard.

Barb

>

> Thanks so much to those who responded to my e-mail. We have since

been in

> further contact with our insurance company and have found that they

do, in

> fact, make exceptions if you can prove no one else in network

provides this

> service. It is clear that no one does so we are getting together the

>