Posted by linkadge on December 4, 2004, at 10:44:43
In reply to Re: To the point where I don't mention suicidiality » linkadge, posted by SLS on December 4, 2004, at 7:53:36
Thats exactly it. It's in my chart that I know a great deal about medications. (Ie If I am asked to give a reason why I don't want to try remeron, I say the 2a/2c blocade makes me obsessive, and norepinephrine meds make me irritable)
They've got me labled as a hypochondriacal drug seeker. And that sticks! (Its in my chart which gets passed from doctor to doctor) And doctor shopping only makes it worse! You leave one doctor the chance is that the next one is going to think you are a drug seeker gets more likely.
And being young also strikes against me. All the old psychiatrtists I see are still harbouring false ideas that a young person can't really be depressed (and treatment resistant none the less)
No, no, it's all just too fishey for them. They write me off.
The last psychiatrist I went to, I waited 6 months suicidally for this (7min) aptment! I begged in the office to let me try Nardil, he asked me one question, "how's your sex life?" and then said he only prescribed SSRI's.
I've never felt more hopless in my life. I'm young, I'm suicidal, I have no money, I have to wait half a year to see a psychiatrist (who doesn't believe a word I say), sends down a dead end path, that I've been down before.
I just can't take it. Time is the one thing that a depressed person doesn't have.
Or, more aptly put, I just don't care anymore.
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