Posted by hyperfocus on November 25, 2010, at 23:05:57
In reply to Will I be commited if bring a gun to a, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on November 23, 2010, at 21:47:22
rj I think you need to get out of the control of your mother. Most if not all of your posts I've read feature her as a common ever-present negative factor. Even if you have to live at the YMCA, you can't be miserable all the time because of her. If your mother isn't helping you then why stay? Can't you live on your own? Everybody has to leave the nest at some point.
The truth is that there are a lot of doctors who just don't care about their patients. Compassion is an extremely rare quality. Many doctors, from my experience, don't seem to have it. They see you like a question on an exam: as long as they give the answer from a textbook. they're absolved of all further responsibility for you. Even if they're absolutely wrong and their patient is miserable and getting sicker, they don't care. If you try to tell them how you feel they get angry and arrogant and act like you're the problem.
You need compassion and understanding to treat addiction and people suffering from addiction and and it sounds like this doctor has none. I know this will be really hard but you have to find a doctor with compassion - somebody who cares about YOU more than they care about themselves. Psychiatry is a dynamic field that requires a lot of drive and energy and motivation to keep studying, keep researching, keep analyzing, keep changing hypotheses and deductions and conclusions. And most of all it requires a lot of compassion. And the truth is, most pdocs aren't up to the task. But even if you find a GP that has these qualities then it's a start. If you find your doctor is arguing with you more than listening to you, you have to move on. It's that simple.
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