Posted by Lamdage22 on July 24, 2013, at 14:19:24
In reply to Re: Doing a fair bit better » Lamdage22, posted by Tomatheus on July 24, 2013, at 13:50:12
Thomateus,
i didnt ask them. Once again i was afraid to overwhelm them or hurt their feelings.. Though i think this is more of a pride and having to be right issue.
I will defenitely ask tomorrow if they wanna raise it at all and if not, then WHY THE F*CK not. Then i will ask for 25 mgs.
Then i will tell them to stop the damn "dont be too active" and that i need them to go through the things i want to do with me... so i can go ahead and pick up that piece of sh*t of life and turn it into something worth living.
I have been such a zombie, i guess i was an easier patient in a way when i was staying in bed all day and nodding and agreeing to every word they say. They love that.
Then i want to tell them that i have so many urgent problems, that i dont even want to tell them to not overwhelm them. I will tell them about the other diagnoses i have (signature) and i tell them how much my weight distresses me. (overwheight due to Seroquel)
I have been working out like a maniac in my teenage years and early twenties. And i didnt do that too walk around with embarassing belly fat.
I will leave them alone with the nightmaires, because i think at that point they would just leave the room and declare me crazy.
What do you think?
> Hello again Lamdage,
>
> You sound frustrated, to say the least. I think that your frustration is understandable. Receiving care that's not up to your expectations can be frustrating. Although psychiatric care has made what I think is significant progress over the past century, I think that there is still more guesswork and trial and error in psychiatry than most patients like us can stand, and I think that that can be one source of the resentment that a lot of patients feel toward the mental health and medical systems. I can't say from my position the degree to which you might be right about your doctors being lazy and incompetent, but I think that even the best doctors might seem incompetent when the treatment options that they have to work with leave a lot to be desired. In much the same way that a master chef is only as good as the ingredients that he or she uses, psychiatrists in a lot of ways are only as good as the treatment options that they have available to them. In their quests to first do no harm, your doctors probably want to be as careful as they can be to avoid prescribing any treatment that might lead to added distress and/or dysfunction. Unfortunately, this can sometimes interfere with getting you the treatment that might serve you best in the shortest time frame possible.
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> So, how are things going for you at present? If you already asked your doctors about increasing your Jatrosom/Parnate dose, what did they say?
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> Here's to hoping that you're finding some peace of mind.
>
> T.
Schizo-affective
Seasonal-Affective
Social Anxiety
some PTSD
some Inattentive ADS
300 Seroquel, 1200 Acetylcystein
40-50 mg Parnate
Contemplated: Prazosin for nighmaires
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