Posted by gardenergirl on October 11, 2006, at 21:13:11
In reply to Re: Let's play Pdoc Mix and Match Game!!!, posted by laima on October 9, 2006, at 16:41:09
I was spending too much time obsessing about it last week. The humor and all your posts helped, but I still was going nuts.
Talking to her was very validating. Not in a good way for her, lol. Validating in that I confirmed that it's a very very good thing to stop seeing her.
I asked her what criteria she used to assess how I'm doing. I was thinking of the DSM criteria such as sleep, appetite, mood, thoughts, etc. She just sort of fumbled around and mentioned something about situational factors. And that I seemed to be doing "fine." Bzzzz. wrong answer
Then I talked to her about the "not changing your meds until..." comment. She didn't remember it and tried to 'splain it away. I told her those were her exact words and that it seemed like she was lashing out. She lamely and insincerely apologized. Sort of a patronizing, lame tone of voice. I said that it was probably hard to apologize for something you didn't even remember.
At some point, I was silent in response to something she said. She filled that silence by telling me about how the office person "sabotauged" her billing system, but she had "no idea why" the woman would do that to her. Hmmm, what's the common denominator here? I'm telling you something that you have no clue about. You have no clue why the office person would "sabotauge you". Hmmm.
Add that to her saying that it's been "slow" this summer and me realizing that I never had any trouble making an appt. What pdoc is ever "slow" when there are wait-lists all over town?
Yeah, I finally got a clue about her. Looking forward to new doc next week.
Thanks again, everyone.
gg
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