Va San Diego Healthcare System

VA service has always been quick, efficient, and thorough in my experience. Pharmacy usually has a long line so I have my scripts mailed. Seeing a specialist has taken me a month to get in typically. Parking blows at the hospital but they're fixing that. After having private insurance, I see little difference. Happy with the VA in SD.

Other than the long wait time, service is good, the staff could help a little more. However, good rate from me.

VA Hospital La Jolla is where my Healthcare provider sets me up with health care Doctor's appt's. I was seen by a Dermatologist 05Jul so now I am logged into their computer system and can be seen by them again for my Healthcare need. Also on Thursday's @2000 I attend Torrey Pines AA mtgs. here in the VA Hospital La Jolla and have been doing so for 10yrs. On Thursday, 25Jul19 I will be celebrating my 10yr Anniversary where my Sponsor & good Friend will present me with a 10yr token & Cake for 10yrs consecutive sobriety.

I just thought I would take time and share my personal experiences dealing with the San Diego Veterans Hospital psychiatric Department just so that other veterans will know what to expect and will not have to learn the hard way like I did I served five years in the US Military and received an honorable discharge right before getting out of the military I voluntarily requested psychiatric treatment because I was having personal difficulties and I thought they would be able to help but that has not been the case things have only gotten worse I will describe for you the treatment I have received I initially was given a diagnosis of depression and then I was given drugs to treat that so-called condition along with those drugs came side effects and when they observe the side effects they inform me that I also had an additional condition and it required additional drugs to treat as well and this process has repeated over and over and I still have depression as well as many other side effects and negative psychiatric disorder labels as well so basically these drugs just shut down parts of the psychiatric patients brain so that they will not realize that they are unhappy but they also shut down the parts of the brain that are responsible for making logical decisions that are required to live a productive life and function normally and that is what they consider to be an acceptable form of treatment if you tell them the drugs they are giving you are not helping but only causing new additional problems they will just tell you that you have not been taking them for long enough but they don't really tell you how long is long enough they just tell you to keep taking them they will ask you if you have a weapon or if you intend on hurting yourself or anyone else and when you tell them no they will refuse to provide you with beneficial treatment and only offer to give you the same medication that obviously provides you no benefit if you become visibly angry or distraught because they refused to provide you with the proper treatment then they will tell you that you becoming angry is a symptom of your mental condition taking the medication they provide is actually a form of self-harm because it is very toxic and has many uncomfortable side effects it doesn't really seem to matter what is wrong with the patient because antidepressants antipsychotics and mood stabilizers will pretty much shut anyone's brain down no matter what is wrong with them and as long as they are quiet and non-disruptive then that is considered an acceptable treatment even if it ruins the patient's life many people respond to psychiatric drugs differently so they have to keep trying different drugs on each patient until they find the ones that give them the desired result so if you agree to take these drugs you're basically agreeing to be experimented on with mind-altering substances with many potential negative side effects my experience has been extremely frustrating for me because I really have no idea how to make them provide me with proper treatment instead of tranquilizers and gaslighting that's all I'm really trying to get what I would like to happen is if someone reads this it would be nice if they started listening to the patients and try to provide them with proper treatment instead of just gaslighting them that's all I really want so far my experience would be comparable to treading water in the ocean and calling out for help and having someone toss you an anchor to catch

I get all of my healthcare here since '06. The Dr's, nurses, & staff are attentive & caring.