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Re: Abusive psychiatrists

Posted by TomV on March 16, 2001, at 11:34:25

In reply to Abusive psychiatrists, posted by Fred Potter on March 15, 2001, at 18:00:52

> Can someone please advise me? I've just had a horrible meeting with a psychiatrist who favours the confrontational approach. He is a sort of behaviourist so he had told me to give up Prozac, which I'd been prescribed 2 weeks before by another pdoc. And to stop taking Xanax or he wouldn't treat me. I told him that wasn't safe done suddenly. He said it is quite often and if I felt happier I could stop it 4 3 2 1. I said if he told patients to stop it suddenly he was being irresponsible, which is where all the name calling started. "Incredibly adolescent", "a 5 year old", "unbelievably arrogant" etc. My wife was present and it didn't help when she agreed. He would occasionally snigger to my wife over some sad fact that I came up with, like the contents of my medicine cupboard.
>
> So now he's refusing to treat me. I could try giving up Xanax, but why when it helps? I thought CBT worked better in combination with drugs. Where should I go from here ?
> Thanks for reading this
> Fred

Fire this guy right away... and report him to your Medical Board. Stoppin xanax on a dime?? No chance; that's basic medicine 101.

I'd ask for a refund too. I wouldn't expect one, but I'd ask just to rattle his cage after reporting him. This guy should be practing medicine on lab rats, not people.


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