II need help with depression and my local health center in SC is no good. They treat you like a prisoner. I need a good diagnostician and start all over with my medicines. I need to go where they will accept you medical insurance and where they care about the patient.
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Are there resources for those who have issues with depression or anxiety who lack medical insurance?
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I am a 16 year old male.
I have medical insurance, and access to my insurance card.
I would go to my normal doctor, but my parents refuse to take me…. I am considering going to a walk in medical clinic near my area.
Starting from when I was … 13, I sometimes got very dizzy when I stood up suddenly. Also, I was pretty thirsty and urinate frequently. Now I get hives all over my body when I exercise and when it gets hot. I’ve also noticed I cough up a lot of Flem, and have some problems swallowing.
The impact of all of this has left me very tired. I sleep around 6-8 hours a night and still am extremely tired during the day.
I need help, and my parents just accuse me of being a hypochondriac. … Everything has gotten worse and I am concerned for myself.
What would I need to get help at a walk-in medical clinic?
I’m guessing I just need my insurance card and ID?
Would my parents get the bill?
… Talking with my parents will not help, they mock me when I try.
Their neglect really hurts me.
Maybe they are just too lazy to drive me over to my actual doctor. …?
I am not sure as to why they are so persistent.
My symptoms have gotten so bad they interfere with my everyday living.
Whenever I go to school I get the hives and I feel like it’s a little difficult to breath. I can’t enjoy summer anymore because I wake up with hives all over my body.
If I don’t drink around every 40 minutes or so I feel extremely thirsty.
And my parents just say: "It’s just a phase- stop being a hypochondriac!"
I do not really like my doctor either. He has said my vision was "very good" for years and at when I got my eye test at my school, the nurse said I desperately needed glasses.
When I got an increase in floaters in both my eyes, my parents also called me a hypochondriac.
I do not want to go blind. (Increase of floaters can be a sign of retinal detachment, which can lead to blindness.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you for your time.
About the dizziness: It’s gotten so bad I have blacked out twice and I see brown fuzzy "stars" in my vision-I usually cannot see anything with the dizziness, and it concerns me.
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I would like to get a prescription for anti-depressants without my parents knowing. I am 19, so the doctor is not obligated to tell them, but I am under their medical insurance, which reports all the prescriptions of all the family members each month. However, I know my college health center operates independently of the health insurance company, so the prescription would never show up. I’m just not certain whether or not they can write prescriptions. Can they?
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