Omg... WTF? Worst Doctor Encounter Ever

[No-Twitch-Tabitha]

I think I'm on to a rant...you've been warned.

Your story is the exact reason why I refused to see a doctor for so long about my problems other than depression.

My oldest sister was diagnosed alternately Manic Depressive/Bipolar and Schizophrenic. Personally, I think it MPD, but that's just my observation. Anyway, watching what she went through: hospital to clinic to group home to mental HELLth facility made me afraid for many years to even bother getting any help for myself. Her experiences (and being dragged along to the scenes of the drama by my mother because I was the youngest) made me very cynical about "mental health care" from an early age.

It seems like "doctors" -- as opposed to professionals who are trained to shut their yap and listen to you -- are more than eager to slap labels on you that correspond to what samples the last pharm rep just left. I feel very lucky to have a PCP that actually gives a crap and listens to his patients, not to mention my evaluator was very patient and courteous. It seems that my cynicism is shared by those who are paid to render the services. It burns me up. :angry-fla

 

[YoungAndAngry]

I think that your family doctor is able to handle minor-mild depression cases.

But... as my own GP told me, family doctors usually only have general knowledge about these disorders...
...so instead of him pumping me up with pharm samples, he made me an appointment with some specialist that would oversee the PTSD and other issues, while he could concentrate on what he knows best.

He still writes the priscriptions, as he and the specialists stay in contact.
But by having all my doctors in sync with eachother has made everything so much easier.
They each know what the other is doing, and update eachother on my condition.

At times it makes me feel like a little kid,
but it's just such a relief to have someone take charge!

 

[anthony]

Tabitha, have a look at this thread I posted in regard to [DLMURL="http://www.ptsdforum.org/thread280.html"]finding a trauma expert[/DLMURL].

 

[carpediem2006]

We all meet doctor's occasionally who don't know their ass from their elbow; and I thought they studied biology.

The only comisseration is that even doctor's can have bad days, depression, headaches, divorces, bereavements or anything else.

Going back to biology, she may just be having a bad hair day. Personally, I would get out of her hair fast.

 

[Ed Norton]

That sounds like all of my doctor experiences:(

 

[Pencil]

DID, depression, and being bi-polar.

:laugh: OMG so you can't work with PTSD but you can with DID plus bipolar? :wtf: