Hey @alien99 , glad to see you back.
Yeah you are right - but its always nice to be liked.
I know that you have been having some issues with your pdoc - whats the latest?
Haha, yeah, I fired her. Gross incompetence by a third-year med student is not something I want to be party to, so her and the whole clinic are in my rearview. It’s a teaching school’s clinic, so there’s not much of a point in switching students. I see a new doc 12/22. How’ve you been?
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Good for you Greg, Im dong ok, hanging in there.
Its really good to see you back.
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She asked me to marry her.
I would marry a psychiatrist.
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I might even have plans to marry a psychiatrist
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Free therapy…
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I get along pretty well with my psychiatrist. We talk about cats, and I talk about my writing a lot, I tell her my hopes/goals and she helps me look for ways to achieve them…or she’ll tell me that I have very serious illness and that I should get so hard on myself if I’m not where I thought I’d be by now.
She was real supportive when I told her about my blog I write about my illness and asked to see it. I wonder if she ever has taken the time away from work to glance at it or not. Mostly I talk about my kitty (who is most of my life sadly) and my family.
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you are taking it too personaly…remember she is human 
…and therefore prone to good and bad days like anyone else.
also as sz or a mentaly ill person 
generally…we tend to take offence waaaay to easily…when really the remark from the shrink or therapist was said with no malice or ill intent.
know some one cares 
take care 
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You make a lot of sense @darksith -
Thank You 
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I’ve had some who don’t really like me… have been impatient with me.
The doc I have now… I’ve had off and on through my journey. He would say something I didn’t want to hear… and I’d storm out… get a different doc eventually and then eventually ask to come back.
We’ve been through a lot… He has always taken me back… he does smile a bit when we talk a little about some of my past antics in his office…
I’m sure there are times I pushed his patience to the limit. But all in all… I think he likes me well enough.
I hope things go better for you soon.
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my pdoc seems to like me pretty well. I like him very much. I think it is important to get that emotional caring from a pdoc, for whatever my opinion is worth, I feel it pretty strongly.
judy
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At best my pdocs have been indifferent and at worst positively negative towards me. I don’t think I have had one that’s definitely liked me.
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The rot set in between me and pdocs during my first admission when instead of getting support and understanding a pig ignorant oaf of a pdoc called me “an awkward and troublesome teenager”.
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I am sorry to hear that firemonkey. that’s painful in addition to the sz.
maybe you could communicate to your pdoc how you feel about your relationship with him/her.
just a thought. good luck. judy
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I see a nurse practitioner now and will only see pdoc in a crisis/emergency. Nurse practitioner is ok.
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My pdoc , wants me on Clozaril , probably because he feels I would see a massive jump in functionality. We dont have a particulary good relationship , I meet others in his team , in 18 months we might have met 3 times , the last meeting was tetchy , ahh well , its my life , and as long as Im not a threat to myself or others then I will persue my strategy towards good mental health. Does he like me ? I dont know , he probably does , does he show it , no , I can venture that he probably sees me as someone who is too smart for his own good. So when I attend him I always logically put my case to him , I feel that he is attuned to seeing some of my utterances as arrogant , so I keep it clear and rational.
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I think pdocs like it if you are just so intelligent and no more. If they feel you can intellectually challenge them they get shirty .
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This is so true - I get a sense that my current pdoc does not like to get challenged.
She even asked me if I have a copy of the DSM at home.
I decided to tone it down a bit and I may go see less of her - once a month is fine.
She obviously is having a difficult time diagnosing me - this is her problem, not mine.
All of my psychiatrists have one thing in common, a big Ego - thats for sure.
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true true but that goes for many people , not just pdocs. i have some empathy for them , because they have lines and lines of individuals that conform to a certain ‘type’. so its not easy , they gota get a ‘job’ done and there are only so many hours in a working day…