Posted by Dinah on November 9, 2003, at 13:55:13
In reply to HELP!!! Your good / bad experiences with Dr's etc, posted by NikkiT2 on November 9, 2003, at 12:24:24
Hmmm... It's easy to come up with bad, less easy to come up with good.
I guess good would be my therapist. He listens to what I say, doesn't overreact, and talks to me about things calmly, with no threats of abandonment to get me to "behave".
My previous pdoc was a great example of how not to behave. He seemed to take my self injury as a personal affront to him. He pushed more and more meds on me, wouldn't listen to my telling him that they were making things worse by increasing my level of agitation, and finally provoked me into quitting. I've mercifully blocked out most of the memory of that session, but it ended with him yelling at me that he guessed I would go home and cut myself now because he said something that "upset" me (the upset was said with such a sneer). I made it out to the car in shock before calling him and telling him that he was fired because nobody was allowed to speak to me that way. I think he was relieved. I call him the pdoc from h*ll, or the Evil Dr. D. I don't even know how to describe what he did wrong. Didn't listen to reports of side effects, blamed the patient, and finally belittled and yelled at the patient. I doubt those techniques are standard anywhere, tho. :)
My current pdoc also has a bit of a bad experience feel to him, though he doesn't scare me so I stay with him. He doesn't want to hear anything ummmm... dramatic. So if I mention self injury or suicidal ideation, he gets completely blank and turns the subject. So I don't mention them, or anything else I think he might disapprove of. I'm pretty sure that that isn't an ideal state of affairs either.
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