Posted by poser938 on May 17, 2013, at 17:52:28
In reply to Re: Antidepressants and suicide - Corrections » poser938, posted by Dinah on May 17, 2013, at 2:38:09
> You need a new psychiatrist. Yours sounds like my first psychiatrist as an adult, affectionately known as the pdoc from h*ll. Psychiatrists numbers 2 and 3 were far more helpful.
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> It's not just psychiatrists. I had an internist who thought my textbook case of kidney stones was diverticulitis. The specialist looked incredulous. She also tried to prescribe narcotics for migraines without even trying a prophylactic. And you should have seen the treatment my mother got in a major hospital ER.I know better psychiatrists exist. I've found only one that actually took my situation in consideration. Psychiatrists don't like hearing you when you tell them their meds are having seemingly permanent effects on you.
But the one that believed me and would honestly prescribe me ANYTHING as long as we could make a case for it. But we kept running into dead ends, probably partly because I don't have insurance and couldn't afford the tests she wanted me to get done. But she ended up having her secretary send me an email letting me know that she thought my case was above her expertise, and I got passed on to another dim psychiatrist.
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> An M.D. does not guarantee excellence, and I'd judge from experience that it doesn't even guarantee competence.
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> Look elsewhere. Better ones do exist.
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