Posted by SLS on July 8, 2006, at 7:16:23
In reply to Level 3 Results of STAR*D announced Med-Empowered, posted by cecilia on July 8, 2006, at 6:59:47
> Well realistically, a lot of treatment resistant people do have personality disorders,
What would you estimate to be the percentage?
> Of course meds are never going to solve all our problems, personality disorder or not, we all have issues.
I see a lot of people writing this here on Psycho-Babble, and I must say that I feel insulted that someone should assume this of me. Why must I have issues just because I have a biological brain disorder?
> But many doctors see treatment resistant patients as personality disordered by definition.
I have never been given this impression by any of my doctors in my 25 years of failed treatments. I have never heard of this axiom.
> The very statement "treatment resistant" is derogatory,
I have never heard this.
> implying that the patient is choosing not to respond.
I am fortunate not to have been made to feel this way by my doctors. I know better.
I don't mean to be adversarial, but my experience with psychiatry does not match yours - fortunately. I hope I am not in the minority. It might depend upon from what generation the practitioner learned his trade.
- Scott
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