What advice would you give me how to interact with my mental health worker?

August 25, 2009 by  
Filed under Mental Health

mental health

I have been visiting with a community mental health worker for two years, on average once a week. What advice would you give me on how to steer this arrangement in the right direction?

I have been in the mental health system for five years. I had a temporary internship position in the local tax office and my boss told me that I was staring into space and that I was sick. My employer referred me to a psychiatrist and to a public health psychotherapist. The psychiatrist said that I had a psychosis and he settled on a treatment of a small daily dosage of Haldol, the anti psychotic. The psychotherapist said that I had a low level of thought disorder (a one out of ten on the scale of mental disorder). He consulted with me for two years, every three or four weeks. He withdrew from my case and the next year a new mental health worker started seeing me. She meets with me on average once a week, usually for coffee. What can I do with the present arrangement I have got?