Bad Psychologist Report

[CraftyCath]

Way to go Kath! :tup:

How on earth can they know and understand what you have gone through in a 30 minute session? It beggars belief!

I think I'll come over and let him evaluate me LOL. It's taken 25 years with the NHS and still I had to get the diagnosis and therapy dine privately. My doctors still question my diagnosis and I was turned down for disability 3 times!

But I know who I am and I like who I am. I'm a good judge of character and I KNOW you are truly amazing! :D

If you get any more problems you can always go to Citizens Advice, they were really good with me and it is free and confidential.

 

[bittersweet]

KP I'm sorry I'm getting to this late but I hope you continue to feel better about this. A report is a piece of paper and the person who wrote it isn't you therefore they don't know jack. You are a great person and you have helped me through tough times and I just hope you know I am there for you when you go through yours.

 

[Eleanor]

(((((KP))))) Awesome courageous work going thru the thing line by line.:tup::tup: That is the way to handle it. A thought: Not sure exactly what process you are involved in, but it might be worth a line by line refutation and a letter to someone relevantly official asking for a re-evaluation with safeguards (taping the interview) given the errors and omissions of the first report which render it unreliable. Unless you like the ultimate conclusion in which case, it might make sense to let is stand. It is a piece in a game if you are negotiating with insurers, that is all is is, a piece in the game. Your objective is to get your needs met. That's it. Not truth or justice, that's God/Karma's job. You don't have the tools. I don't know if you struggle with this kind of "fix the universe" compulsion, but I do so I just put that out there in case:D.

RANT: Aren't there some kind of guidelines for psychological evaluations? Thirty minutes? For an ASSESSMENT? Seriously. And he didn't just copy down what you said? Personally I'd tape the next session, and mention that I was going to have it independently evaluated. (Even if this is not true, it puts people on their best behavior. It is just AMAZING how much better my care got when I fell off my horse when I mentioned that I wanted copies of the X-rays to send to my Dad's friend, he was administrator of a major hospital in Detroit at the time, who was head of radiology at my Dad's hospital. All of a sudden it seemed like a good idea to do a CAT scan of my back too! And Oh, my maybe we'd better xray that ankle that you are complaining about...)

People lie. People make mistakes. All psychologists are people. Thus some of them will lie and make mistakes. Letters after the name are no guarantee of anything.:(. Just read through my H's psych eval from almost 40 years ago - the piece of :poop: psych said he came from "an intact family with five children." Uh, really? How about divorced for 12 years and four kids altogether. Sheesh dude, at least get the facts straight. He was setting my H up for a BCD. Evil evil stuff. End of Rant.

 

[AngelaMarie]

When I still lived in th US (lifetime ago) I had a herneated disc. I couldn't sit for long periods of time and I had my own doctor that was treating me for it. After a certain period of time I was sent to a "doctor picked by the insurance". He didn't even really examine me. His job was to take my benefits away. Which he did a few days before Christmas.

They are paid to have a certain perspective. Kath, you know who you are. These people are just not very nice (and I am trying to be nice by saying it that way). You are a great person!!!

 

[SeekingSerenity]

This is the last I will say about this...

Good for you KP (((((((((hugs)))))))))))

 

[Deleted member 6617]

KP...just in case you needed to hear it again.....YOU ARE AMAZING! HUGS

 

[Loloma]

Especially for you KP.

 

[KP the nut]

I can't thank you folk enough for all your support. It has really helped me.

H and I went through the report last week with a highlighter pen and we made copious comments. On Saturday H pulled it all together in a format which hopefully my solicitor can understand. I have requested being reassessed this time with H at my side like glue.

I also told my solicitor I had DVD recordings of some of my EMDR sessions. I'd put these in the bottom of my scarf drawer and forgotten them - they are not easy watching. In addition I have a journal, similar to my diary here which tells exactly how my feelings were during treatment. I didn't want to make them available, as it is quite disturbing stuff. H made a copy of it, all 70 pages, I also allowed him to read it. He read some and I think was shocked at exactly how much I'd kept hidden. I will make the recordings and my journal available if my solicitor thinks they would help.

So, I posted the letter today and will wait for my solicitors response. I am in fighter mode, I will not just lie down and take it. You have all helped give me the strength to do that.


(((HUGS)))

 

[Froggie]

Way to go ((((KP)))), you'll get justice, we're all behind you ... you're in our thoughts, prayers and candle burning.

 

[amethist]

Good for you KP.

Now relax for a while and pick yourself back up as best you can.

 

[KP the nut]

pick yourself back up as best you can.

And tomorrow early eve, that means sitting at the top of the garden in the last of the sunshine drinking champagne. No special reason, just because we can.:inlove::tup:

 

[CraftyCath]

You're like me KP, you don't need a reason for a drink of champagne! A glass of Chardonnay is being raised to you here!!!! Keep up the good fight!

A gift for you....