Shrink today. It is obvious these people are stuck in a text book world. Also obvious she is just following the prescribed PTSD text book. All trauma trauma, nothing deeper than a label for something much more complex in my eyes. Probably should not be so critical.
I mentioned Cognitive Dissonance to her (A hijacking in Zips thread), but she was only mildly familiar with the term. And then reverted to the Trauma mantra.....not it's elements.
I guess I have allot of questions that still need to be answered. Oh well, onwards and sideways. o_O
Oh yeah, And aside from that they still claim I owe them money...in a free system...I have something called a "Frikort" and then they claimed I had missed my meeting by an hour. Kicked me out for two weeks. Almost kicked me out today if I had not gotten pissed off. Came close to snapping and storming out. So now it has become an anger management exercise as well.
They are stuck in the textbook world. Always be critical of MDs and Psychs- it keeps them honest or gets you transferred to a "real brain picker that actually cares/is not just a pill dispenser. (True story, caught my first Doc reading right off the page from the exact same college textbook I used when I was forced to take Abnormal Psychology a few semesters back...)
Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychiatry are "soft" science to the layperson and pseudoscience to real scientists. My psychs all hate me. I know this because I make their lives difficult as I do not accept their prescribed therapies and pills without them first showing me the peer reviewed, published papers and/or books that justify their claims. Now, I get that not everyone is a biochemistry major like yours truly, but I have found that if you politely call them out and ask them to "show you the money" so to speak, they either give up and suggest I see someone else or belly up and put their money where their mouth is.
As others have stated earlier, mental health treatment for PTSD should be a collaboration. If your Doc ain't working for you, "fire" him or her and get a different one. I went through half a dozen before I found ones that work
with me, not from some outdated textbook.
Don't be afraid to hop online and use Google Scholar or a local University library to find/download/read published papers on subjects you want to discuss with your Doc. Don't be afraid that you may not understand half of what is said in the papers- truth is even scientists rarely understand half of the jargon crap that is crammed into the things! The only scary part is, you may learn things you never knew, or like me discover new interests to keep you busy and thinking objectively for those times the Beast rears up to bite you in the ass.
But by arming yourself with valid knowledge to discuss with your Doc, you can then make logical, justified arguments for or against getting a Doc that is worth a damn. I used to think they were pretty rare, but I have found most of them are basically resigned to being pill machines for the ignorant, the lazy and the addicts. Once I started fighting fire with fire, I found it was much easier to establish the most important part of any collaboration: mutual respect.
Knowledge is power, and in this age of instant information access one must be a soldier armed with verifiable facts to battle through the unwashed masses to get the help we want and need.
Then again, that is just the arrogant science geek method. May not work for you, but hell, at this stage of the game, isn't anything worth a shot?
