Posted by Camille Dumont on March 22, 2004, at 11:32:44
In reply to Re: Know your diagnoses?, posted by Camille Dumont on March 22, 2004, at 11:23:13
It turns out that for me, getting access to my psychiatric evaluation was sort of necessary because my GP gave me a really bad medication and I wanted to know / needed to know if the psychiatrist had ordered it ... and I couldn't wait a week with seizures until I could see him.
I'm sort of lucky that the psychologist I see for therapy is very nice ... well I did shop around before choosing her ... its an expensive thing to do but in the end I guess its worth it.
Anyway, she didn't even blink when I asked her about it and agreed with my concerns over the meds so she made me sign a paper and that was it, I got my diagnosis.
I guess some parts of it were slightly hurtfull ... mostly parts about psychotic symptoms which made me feel as though the psychiatrist thought I was making things up.
But on the other hand, I found it very insightfull to have a neutral evaluation of how you are ... it made me notice my tendency to minimize things, the defense mechanism I use ... and such.
All and all, I guess I agreed with most of it and actually, knowing that I'm an avoidant type has made me want to work through this and try to become more assertive ans such.
I guess however that I would have liked for a pdoc to go through it with me ... might have saved me many searches through the DSM-IV. But in the end, I found it a positive experience.
poster:Camille Dumont
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