Posted by med_empowered on February 11, 2005, at 16:08:58
In reply to Re: What's working well for social anxiety these days?, posted by SLS on February 11, 2005, at 15:50:25
hey! yeah, shrinks are weird about controlled substances. If you say "hey, I can't leave my house...for the love of god, gimme a little klonopin," they get upset/suspicious/etc. Now, if they freely come to the conclusion that you need Klonopin, Adderall, whatever, that's completely different, of course. It sucks. It makes me think of my ideal psychiatric relationship, proposed by Thomas Szasz: The relationship would be consensual, and contractual. The shrink would use his/her expertise to help you improve your life through therapy and the use of any available substances the two of you thought might be helpful (in his model, everything would be readily available). There wouldn't be "mental illness" labels; psychiatry would just exist to help people live and live well. Simple, right? Anyway, to answer somebody's question about asking your shrink for adderall, why not? I told an old shrink I wanted a stimulant, if only provigil, b/c all the meds I was on were turning me narcoleptic and underproductive. He said no, I found a new shrink. Simple as that.
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