Posted by LiLi80 on March 17, 2002, at 21:45:30
In reply to How do you confront a bad psychiatrist?, posted by spiroll on March 16, 2002, at 20:25:20
You are supposed to be getter better not worse. Pdocs are everywhere. get a new one. Call and make a few appts/interviews. You are interviewing them. You have to feel comfortable with them. Yeah it may seem that you need a pdoc and he thinks you need him, which is true, but pdocs need patients too. I told my pdoc recently that if he was the only person I went to , I would have offed myself a long time ago. I think that made him think about returning my phone calls on a timely manner. There is no reason to see a pdoc that treats you worse than you already felt before you stepped in the door. If you dont like him , get rid of him. If he says some crap about you not wanting to get better or he's the professional or wants to admit you, then merely tell him that he can scare you all he wants , barbara walters just eats this wronged patient stuff up. If he laughs at this comment, just start reciting the names of local newspapers that you plan on writing editorials to. Still laughs at you, hand him a ripped out page from the phone book that clearly shows LAWYERS written on it. He will get the hint. You cant get better unless you trust the people that is treating you. Once you dont trust them anymore they are useless to you, and you need to change pdocs. Peronally I think you should make a complaint to his boss or the psych association in your state. You control your treatment not him. I dont care what he says , you can always go to another doc. If he threatens hospitalization, you can always call a judge (call any laywer you will be out in 72 hours) and say that you chose to leave his care to seek a different pdoc. The judge will not choose his side if you are just seeking a different doc and not just stopping treatment. Dont let pdcos scare you into being treated. The sad truth is that this guy probably barely graduated with a degree, cause its obvious that he doesnt know what he is doing.
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