I had a Zoom appointment with my psychiatrist this afternoon, scheduled for 2:40 pm. I got on my phone, opened Zoom (which I hate, I believe I have expressed that here before) and waited for her to start the meeting. I waited, waited, and waited some more. By 3:00, I gave up. I waited exactly 20 minutes for her to start the meeting. I called mom and told her, and she gave the place a call and told them the psychiatrist never showed and that I waited 20 minutes. They had the fucking nerve to say this counts as a “no-show” on my part, like I just skipped out on the appointment without a care. I may note that their company policy is that if you are more than 15 minutes late for an appointment, they will reschedule you to another day. No exceptions. So what I want to know is, how fuckin’ long was I supposed to wait? What is the appropriate amount of time for me to sit there and stare at my phone? I think 15 minutes should have sufficed, just like their policy. So now I have a very unfair no-show on my record, which I am going to take up with my psychiatrist Francis when I see her next. Mom said the girl that she talked to on the phone was extremely unhelpful. Also, the place called me twice (I saw it in my missed calls later) and I have stressed 1000x NOT to call my phone because it blocks literally everyone, don’t ask me why, but it does. That’s why they’re supposed to call my mom instead. My last phone did that and this new phone does it too.

I was really upset and felt like a ball of nerves the rest of the day.

But then I got to eat pizza (pepperoni melts from Pizza Hut yum yum) and all was fine again.