I just feel like if you don’t work on your issues you’ll never solve them or grow. I don’t want to be on drugs my whole life ya know? Especially when no one knows what the long term effects might be…I think it’s interesting to see different perspectives on psychiatry though.
I have experienced 5 psychiatrists in Australia. Generally speaking, they are good people but not very responsible from my perspective. This is because non of them have explained to me that I have to choose between a relapse and the side effects of anti-psychotics. It seems the side effects of the anti-psychotics don’t bother them because they have little knowledge of how to combat the side effects of meds. They just don’t care or have no sympathy.
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Pdocs have never discussed possible side effects with me over the 40 plus years I have been on one psychiatric drug or another. Luckily, apart from two quite bad bouts of akathisia and weight gain, I’ve not had the awful side effects that some have had.
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You might work on things + still need the drugs. I’ve been on them for 45 years. Nothing drastic has happened yet.
I’ve made my life away from situations where issues come up. It’s my life the way I’ve done it. You’re probably nearer to the real world than me. That’s good - for you.
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they don’t help me either. Ask if you have aqueductal stenosis. You’ll have to have had a CT scan and an MRI. Goto your medical records department, request your paper medical records and it will be on your radiology report.
outside of that, goto your primary care doctor, request a neurology consult. Ask your neurologist to do an MRI or CT scan and ask if your ventiricles are enlarged in your brain and if you have aqueductal stenosis. If you do, meds won’t help, go see a neurosurgeon from there.
if you are Sz due to too much spinal fluid in your brain, then seeing a psychiatrist and taking a pill won’t help you. the root cause of your psychosis is too much fluid in your head, and the answer is to reduce the pressure inside your head.
i feel they are important and i want to visit them to talk about my trouble at times…my psychiatrist had given me my life best advice and i am lucky i listened and now living my best,so i feel thankful to my current psychiatrist
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I don’t have Sz. On my bio, it says that I have psychotic depression XD
Like everyone I’ve had some good, some bad and some Ugly.
I sort of enjoy the man I’m with now. little by little our relationship has been getting better.
My personal joke is that he sees me when he needs humanizing. We started off not on good terms. But I’ve kept working with him… he’s getting better.
I’ve been humanizing him in small steps through out the years. He’s come far and I’d hate to give up on him now that he’s showing progress to being human… he even told a joke last month… I marked this down as a great improvement.
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ok, I don’t have Sz, I have psychosis NOS @psychoticteen
XD anyway, so how is everyone?
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The only one I have had is actually pretty good. He’s old and has tons of experience, he told me that he doesn’t use half of what they told him in school and works off of experience most of the time. He fixed me, which is saying something. Now I am a productive member of society.
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I think that they should only let schizophrenics go to more experienced psychiatrists because we tend to freak out and rattle the nerves of younger people. Like if I were to say what I had been dreaming about to a psychologist or psychiatrist without gray hair, I would give them gray hair. Mine are already old, they arent scared of me, they just see a bunch of problems which can be solved, which is good.
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I’ve been underwhelmed by some psychiatrists, but that could be because of the psychological phenomenon of transference.
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Ya its a love hate relationship, I am frustrated by the side effects but thankful for his help in combatting the illness.
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Some of them helped me and some didn’t, I’m ok with the one I have now, but he’s really busy so sometimes I see someone else. I remember one or two that really were good and diagnosed me accurately, and two others that messed me up. One of those two put me on new meds without gradually tapering off the dose of the other, and I landed up in hospital after a severe crisis. The other was just after my money - he didn’t help me at all. When I was in crisis and cutting myself he said I am not sick enough to go to hospital and that clinics are too expensive. I will never forget that, how stupid he was. I never went back to him again. Not to mention the next one I went to after him for a second opinion directed me to an inpatient therapy program at my local hospital and since then I have benefitted from inexpensive but good state inpatient and outpatient psychiatric treatment, including free pills and consultations.
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Same. I have had two great psychiatrists. Most have been ok. There were one or two that I didn’t like, though I was very ill at the time and it could have been my bias against them and not anything in particular they did.
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Yeah, Clint would not make a very good psychiatrist.
I can just picture it…: Patient: “Doctor Eastwood, Doctor Eastwood, I feel suicidal today”.
Doctor Eastwood: “Go ahead and do it punk. Make my day”
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XD a military vet would not make a good one either. Well, a marine.
Patient: I just feel so horrible and sad all the time, blah blah…
Marine: What, you want a hanky with them tears! Drop and gimme 100!!
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hmmmm in the beginning they thought it was drug induced psychosis…then when i got out of hospital 5 months later they didn’t know what it was. don’t get me wrong, he was a very nice guy but i wanted to know what was wrong with me. as i was clean all the time i was in hospital it couldn’t b drug induced unless i’d already done the damage years b4. years went by and his assistant became the consultant on my case. i’d learned by then that they couldn’t help me. another break down came and my parent paid for a private shrink…money down the drain. diagnosed me as a paranoid schiz then retracted and severe post traumatic stress with schiz symptoms. i was happy with that for a while but it taught me to not tell any shrink anything that sounded outlandish. i didn’t want the label. now i’m with a good shrink and she has diagnosed chronic auditory hallucinations with post traumatic stress disorder. i’m happy with that. she knows about the rape…she believes me…load off my mind. she warns me of side effects b4 we try any new drug and she’s honest that my voices based on trauma are the hardest to treat. she makes no false promises and warned me that i may have the voices for the rest of my life. i respect her for being honest with me. she’s ok.
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