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My New Doctor Asked Me "what Do You Do With Yourself All Day?"

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Her clone works in the health clinic near me. Wait until you tell her what you do all day, and she says 'you need a Real life.' :grumpy:

Fortunately we don't consult w/ psychiatrists for their compassion, just their medication database. She's a psychiatrist - her feelings are about as relevant as a squid's, and only slightly more developed.

Support, and supporting irritation.
 
Ugh this whole "what do you do for work?" idea has to die.

There are more fulfilling things to do besides drone work with your life.

Heck as a PTSD patient, getting a shower is an accomplishment. Jumping it to work is foolishness.

Time to find another doctor.
 
I also had trouble reading I ended up using that spritz app that centres a single word and highlights the middle letter red. That way you don't have to do much eye movement ( which is not good long term) because it is distracting as you scan left right and then you lose your place and your comprehension
 
I do think some people are very judgmental...like here comes another young enough person able to work. I got disability for fibromyalgia many yrs ago due to help of my dr. At that time, I also took my kids there when necessary, and a nurse made a comment about my applying for disability and maybe my little girls didn't need "Keds" shoes and I should shop at Pick Way if I was so broke I was applying for disability. Im sure she did not think I would say anything to the dr. as I was rather timed. By the time I saw him, I was a bit livid and told him. He was really pissed. Both my girls needed AA shoes which cost a few extra bucks, but it wasn't her business at all. So while I think the question could be legitimate, if she actually rolled her eyes it seems very judgmental.
 
"Easy enough, I spend all of my time avoiding people, places, and things that spark me off. Welcome to the list!" Yeah, I talk alot of smack for a gal that tips over putting her pants on, huh? I can aways come up with the real zingers after the moment has past. In other words, right there with you. Empathy from my corner of the room.
 
a friend seen a doctor yesterday,she said to him "how you manage to drive the kids to school or get through the day?"he has c-ptsd/derealisation.
 
That new doctor needs to become a new old doctor.

Never to be seen again.
 
My Dr. Said I was to smart to be on disability, and just needed to get my meds correct then misdiagnosed me after we went through my diagnosis and he said it sounded like straight ptsd.
I had to go in and tell him if hounding just give me an antidepressant then you can't help me. He wanted to put me on stuff for bipolar which makes me rage. Don't touch my GABA in my brain man. Its been a 21 year battle to get help.
He gave me an antidepressant which is working wonders, and I get to see him in a month to tell him that. He kept saying "I don't want you to get manic." At this point I'm using him as a Psych Doc for a script only, but have a different therapist who is kind, and gets it. And no I'm not manic, so he was wrong like the past ones. They won't listen sometimes.
Fighting with doctors isn't fun, but I straight up told him "if you can't help me with this then I can seek other options." And so he gave me the script.
Dr's are human and have egos, and bad days. Dependant upon the attitude of how it was said to you is most important. And you can get a new doctor while seeing this one. It can take a while to get in to a new doctor I understand. I've learned from learned helplessness in the past not to ever let anyone be in charge, or above me again. I for care about a PhD especially because I knew a bunch years ago that were coke heads.
f*ck em they use you for money, so use them for everything you can, and if they are of no help then don't let your insurance pay them for being an asshole. But, that's just my new opinion as of this year. One therapists took a pay check of $200 a month for three years two sessions a month to treat me like a friend, but that was the last three years of eight with the same therapist. I waisted time where I could have ben seeing someone new, and made sure I was working getting better.
 
My Dr. Said I was to smart to be on disability, and just needed to get my meds correct then misdiagnosed me after we wen...
Typos sorry auto correct is not in my favor today. "I knew Dr's that were coke heads, PhDs mean nothing sometimes."
" I told him if he can't just give me an antidepressant then I would seek other options. "
 
I have been unable to work with ptsd/dissociation for a few years now and starting emdr treatment.we tried cognitive t...
Well, even if your T just wanted to figure out which activities you participate in, it could have been stated with a lot more empathy and not as a brash statement such as was used. It is a way of saying: Oh, I work all day, I know you are really sick, but what the heck do you do all day? It seems like a put down, one would hope a therapist has a little more common sense and empathy before blurting out something like that.
 
My Dr. Said I was to smart to be on disability, and just needed to get my meds correct then misdiagnosed me after we wen...
PTSD does not affect IQ - your doctor does not know anything about the latest research on neuroendicrinology of PTSD - the problem is we can be very smart trapped in overwhelm and emotional dysregulation and having memory issues- and we bloody know it - which makes it all the more frustrating
 
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