RaeMorrill said:
Now all these responses with no quotes to show to whom or what post you
are responding.
Rae <Santa brought me a cold - not in best mood>
Check out this letter SHYGIRL wrote in 2004....
And she is a Therapist??? god damn I sure hope not!
http://www.pahealthsystems.com)
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Posted by shygirl on 09-03-04 09:14 PM:
Trouble with my psychiatrist- need advice
Hi-
I have been going to this mental health center in my community for somewhere
between 7-
8 years to get help for a serious mental problem (schizoaffective disorder).
After many
years with the same doctor but too many incidents where it looked like he
had lied to
me, didn't care about me and really didn't seem to like me I'd had enough
and stopped
going there. I never notified the center about what I was doing and the
center never
bothered to contact me to find out why I wasn't showing up anymore (more
proof that no
one gave a shit about me there). I was taking medication at the time and
continued to do
so even after leaving. After 9 months, when my meds started to run out, I
decided to
contact the center again to get a new prescription (I didn't know who else
to ask). They
assigned a new doctor to me (cause the old one had left) and then some
*really*
bothersome things happened:
1) My new doctor tried to get me to sign treatment plans for the period I
was absent from
the center, when there obviously were no treatment plans because I was
absent from the
center (and not in contact with anyone there while absent)! He also
actually
lied about not knowing when I was absent when I confronted him about it-
just trust
me on that.
2) He, the new doctor, acted extremely bored and put off during our initial
interview
together- always looking away and looking put-off! When he said good-bye at
the end of our session it
was like an after-thought and noticeably forced.
3) The rest of the staff at the center also seem put-off by me. The
receptionist is
borderline XXXXX to me- always giving curt answers to my questions among
other things.
The social worker couldn't be less enthused when/if she says hello to me
when i come in.
And I think I heard the nurse tell the doctor that I was an XXX-hole. My
proof that I'm not
imagining all this is that these people behave differently towards other
patients. They are
far more friendly to them and happy even to see them, usually asking how
they are doing.
They never ask me that.
I don't really know what to do because I don't think these people are
necessarily bad, quite
the contrary. They're just put-off by me (and the treatment plan business
was a mistake
they made that, ok, they're trying to cover up). I've asked the nurse once
if they have a
problem with me but she says no and that they want to help me (but
admittedly she is new
and said this after only one meeting with me). I don't believe it. The
only things I can
think of that I'm guilty of that may bother people are that I have
difficulty trusting and
difficulty liking people (even though I want to- but people just don't seem
to like me much
no matter what I do and I hate it), but I don't know how they would know
about the second
thing cause I thought I didn't show it. Going somewhere else doesn't seem
like much of a
solution since I seem to put-off many people (and I've tried asking what the
problem is and
no one admits to anything). So, if I haven't pissed all of you off yet,
would you tell me
what you think about all this? What would you do? I'm trying to get off
the meds, but
until I do, I still need some kind of a doctor for prescriptions (and I
don't have a primary
care physician at the moment). Thanks for reading (sorry it's so long).
shygirl
