Posted by stjames on December 31, 2001, at 17:45:13
In reply to Kicked out rehabilitation for refusing TCA Ascend!, posted by 3 Beer Effect on December 30, 2001, at 14:14:51
I am growing continually frustrated with psychiatry & psychiatrists in general. Psychiatrists all seem to be threatened by patients who have any knowledge of psychopharmacology, I guess because it threatens their inflated, insecure egos.
I was in a Mental Hospital Outpatient Program for Depression & Chemical Dependency since I overdosed on Soma muscle relaxer/pain pills and ended up in a hospital. The program was an intensive outpatient one with an assigned psychiatrist and group therapy, about a month in length, 3 hours per day.
How about the ego of someone who OD's yet claims
knowledge of psychopharmacology ? I would think this act makes a doc less likly to listen to what you have to say about meds.I will agree that your doc should of been willing
to try another TCA based on your complaints. Given the possibility fo bi polar, any AD by itself would be a bad idea.james
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