I resume i can’t trust doctors.
doctors be people too and people make mistakes.
finding the one (of a few that are out there) that are right for you is hard but well worth it.
that being said… they are slippery to draw a bead on aren’t they?!
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I learned and worked in two trades. When i stuff up i get fired or covered by my colleagues.
I was an overtired sobering drunk. When they would given me more time or rejected me instead of drugging me up i would have lived a happy medication free life. I still can’t sleep regular hours with the difference i am taking medications. Schizophrenia can’t be diagnosed by physical tests. People only understand what they want to hear or believe. Apart that psychiatry was in tight religious hands.All the money they could have saved cause of misdiagnosis.
psychiatry is a very confusing subject because it is not a well understood (and sometimes not well practiced) aspect of science.
psychiatry finally came out of the stone ages in the last 100 years or so, it is still young. until then it was pretty barbaric. it wasn’t until recently that it made actual effective steps in the goals it was trying to achieve (also in some thanks to contributions from other branches of science and society).
we feel it doesn’t work sometimes and even if it is true it is a learning process.
plus i always felt when i gave up on psychiatry i gave up on myself. i pulled myself up by the boot straps to get psychiatry back on it’s feet and headed in the right direction again.
back to the drawing board kind of thing. the important thing is not to give up on yourself, get back to a good place again and step back up to the plate.
in short: sometimes it’s hard after we fall down and we need to take our time in order to make it work the best for us.
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instead of complaining, take action
if you feel violated, you’ll never find peace
What action. I am diagnosed by word of mouth by family and doctors. They shut me up legally. I am on mindbending drugs.
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Legal Aid in your state is affordable
and mainly does personal grievance.
It’s worth a try, but I don’t know for sure
they do a lot of discrimination suits.
then arm yourself with information.
in doing so you prevent them from shutting you up, you enlighten them to your situation plus your better yourself in/and of your situation.
idk you, not trying to be mean or preachy. and idk what your going through right meow.
just trying to give correct info and a way to have perspective in a manner of my own messed up way of thinking i’m supporting you. maybe others could do it better.
I am thinking of improving the mental health system to save money and give more time for the patients. To save more unneccerary suffering.
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I used to be friends with a guy who dumped me because I was too toxic
with my drinking who turned 55 and kept going on and on to me that he quit all meds
with ongoing hatred for Vera French and everyone there because he was
convinced he never had bipolar. He was strange, even for a sz’ic, but maybe not mentally ill.
one way anyone can do that in the mental health system is by taking care of themselves so they can interact with their professional as best as they can.
psychiatry gets numbers and statistics from just interacting with us.
true and beneficial feedback comes from us interacting with them and improving ourselves and the results they get as well.
sharing your idea with your professional is a great way to start.
not cool, guy needs to learn how to treat a lady with more respect.
fragmented and grandiose thinking can harm more than just the person going through it but those around them as well.
I am sharing my ideas here. I have no professional, but me. I just get repetitive scripts.
the scripts aren’t for a lifetime so you gotta talk to a professional eventually, especially if you need a change in meds or dosing for whatever reason. so next time you see them bring it up then.
sharing the idea here is a good place to start too.
ideas take time and discussion to catch on.
they won’t fill them without me being seen
unless I miss an appointment and then I call the nurse
and ask her to please fill them, I’ll be coming in next month
usually she trusts me, and it’s done.
Are you on good terms with your family,
that may be more important than your docs.
I think i forgive and forget to easily. I learned to answer questions and not to ask questions in psychiatry.
And no, i don’t have to change my meds cause i question the mental health system.
Child abuse is real.
you don’t have to tell me twice, i was abused a lot growing up.
i can tell you one thing, i don’t think that kind of talk flies with this site.
when i mentioned about changing meds or dosages it was more supportive to what i was trying to say and i can see it wasn’t necessary. my bad.
i wouldn’t lose faith in yourself or hope. it seems like your having a rough time and just need to work through this part (correct me if i’m wrong).
maybe finding healthy ways to vent and take your mind off of what your going through would help some.