Mental health history in one place? Yes, please.
For years, I’ve struggled with my mental health. While I’ve been incredibly blessed to have fantastic therapists, I’ve had to switch a few times lately because of two moves, post pandemic regulations changing things. Even worse, I’ve had to navigate new psychiatrists.
I really wish I’d had a whole history of the key modalities, links, articles, or even journal prompts therapists had given me over the years, but I’d never put my mental health stuff in one place. I sat down to get it organized and get my profile to reflect the whole story of different treatments, diagnoses, and how I handled each. Keeping this up in live time is making life way easier. Facing another move, I’m looking forward to being able to give a better history to my new providers.
Changing regs required one of my prescribers ti verify which doses we’d tried before, and another meant I had to have a signed referral from my PCP to continue receiving telehealth psychiatry. Thankfully I can put all this in Kith & Kin to make this next go-around easier.
I’m doing the same for my dog too — getting vet records, vaccine history, etc. all ready for a new vet.
Definitely glad to not have to retrace my steps on all this. And while so much of this is super private info, it’s still good to have an emergency plan notebook I can share w/ someone local to make sure someone can access the most critical stuff should they need to.
Glad to have a home for all this stuff!








