Posted by utopizen on March 20, 2003, at 22:55:52
In reply to Re: Perfect example of psychiatric arrogance., posted by zippy on March 20, 2003, at 22:27:35
Zippy,
I've been seeing this p-doc for like a 1 1/2 yrs. I couldn't be a more tactful person if I tried.
My pdoc, at this last visit I'm talking about, noted how much I keep referring to a consult I once had with a colleague of his whenever I suggest a med to try. In this case, it was how his colleague suggested I take Klonopin long-term. Well he responded by saying "I think you have more faith in him, so I think it would be best if you started seeing him instead. I don't research social anxiety like he does." or something like that.
Anyway, so he admitted he didn't know enough about social anxiety, even though he's one of the top psychopharma names in Boston. (I live in Boston). I present my ideas very rationally to him, in a very straight-forward and logical way. What's ironic is that I'm the reasonable one when I say something he claims is irrational, and I can prove this through the texts I find that support my ideas. And these aren't ideas that I got from texts, but things that just made common sense to me at the time. Later I read texts to affirm their validity, but only to prove it to my doc.
As for the poster who claims that my doc knows better, I wouldn't be so confident in his knowledge of these things. I truly believe he doesn't understand how anxiety can impede one's thoughts, because at every appt. he has said "so if you have to choose between focusing on your ADD and your anxiety, which one would you pick?" as if to suggest treating my anxiety will worsen my ADD.
I've tried to explain to him my anxiety and ADD can't be compartamentalized like that, because anxiety itself can affect my thoughts. But he doesn't "get" it.
I think he approaches this as a "this drug's a downer, that'll bring you down, calm you down, make you stupid. but the ADD drugs are stims, they're uppers, make you smarter, but anxious." He's over-simplifying things and over-generalizing in the process. And last time I checked the psych books, over-generalization is a form of irrational thinking...
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