I lost my health insurance and can’t afford to keep getting my medications (that I’ve taken over 10 years) refilled. Can GoodRX discount doctors too?

I know they discount prescriptions (out of pocket is literally hundreds of dollars a month for many, completely unreasonable and should be illegal) but not too sure if they offer any type of psychiatrist service, like online probably? That wouldn’t cost $200-$300+ a visit.

I take Oxcarbazepine 600 MG tablets (twice a day, so 1,200 MG a day, so that’s 60 tablets a month), Sertraline 100 MG tablets (but take two at a time, so 200 MG a day, so also 60 tablets a month).

I have taken those two for over 10 years now, prescribed for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The Oxcarbazepine was prescribed “to control or offset Sertraline side effects”. I was underage (16) and in a psychiatric hospital at the time, so I had to take them, and also because I had the strangest strongest OCD symptoms which were severely disruptive.

A couple of years ago, I was ALSO prescribed Bupropion SR 100 MG tablets, once a day, so that’s 30 tablets a month. This was prescribed for worsening uncontrollable rage outbursts that started at 18, I was literally feeling so mad from certain triggers, I’d yell that I was going to kill who I was mad at. This started suddenly after a series of very disturbing and vivid nightmares I still remember, and didn’t go away after that. It was like a switch flipped, it just started all of a sudden and never went away on its own.

The bupropion SR really stopped me from potentially going to prison, so I definitely needed it, I’m really broken in the head……

I do feel physical discomforts a lot, brain tingles and needles stabbing my brain (especially when mad), almost constant fatigue, frequent dizziness, and just weird emotional reactions I’m not even sure are describable (not all anger or violent, but like, confusion…..)

I have disturbing violent intrusive thoughts, and feel confused when I feel sympathy/empathy, because it completely contradicts the intrusive thoughts. It’s, inconsistent? Like, I think like a psychopath, but then feel things a psychopath couldn’t feel, a psychopath wouldn’t feel bad or bothered by these thoughts, and yet, I have these thoughts but DO feel bad and bothered about them.

I’ve had trouble keeping jobs for being unable to move fast enough and missing little details, apparently? Employers often won’t explain why you’re being fired if they also tell you “you try hard”. I’ve been given comments, sometimes people stop short of saying something is wrong with me (one person straight up said they assumed I was on disability income, no, not a manager or supervisor, but refused to elaborate on why they thought that). They didn’t say it to be intentionally mean, but it was still hurtful and I had no idea why people think I’m literally disabled….. No one explains or elaborates.

I had a simple job for over four years, honestly just bagging groceries, getting shopping carts from a parking lot, and restocking returned/unwanted groceries. It’s not where I started, but ended up after starting in another department……

I don’t have my driver license, and at this point I’m really just using Uber/Lyft until self driving technology is widely accessible (whether if be through ridesharing or somehow affording to buy my own self driving car).

I live in the state of Texas, so no expanded ACA. Our politicians are overly selfish and even want to force women (and even little girls) to give birth to their rapists parasites.

I live with my parents (27, so kicked off their health insurance at 26, had my own from my job, but….., I’ll get to that) and can’t just “go to another state”, there’s nobody and nothing else for me to go to. I have a little over $7,000 in savings, but have been unable to save any money in a long time.

That job was easy, but terrible. It was a dead end, that barely even paid less than $12 an hour, I was constantly harassed by customers, and a supervisor constantly accused me of things I didn’t do, and so many times I was nearly hit by a car in the parking lot, people backing up all of a sudden after sitting for minutes, a guy yelled at me threatening to beat me for looking at him, etc…..

I just need to try something else. I was going to lose health insurance when I quit anyway, and not guaranteed it from another job (and also could be “let go” quickly.

The Sertraline in particular has debilitating withdrawal I think I’d rather die than go through.

Is my life doomed beyond hope at this point?

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