I have an appointment with a new psychiatrist my old one retired.
My old psychiatrist had 60 years experiance.
The new psychiatrist I have an appointment with graduated in 2009 and has been in practice since last year.
I have an appointment with a new psychiatrist my old one retired.
My old psychiatrist had 60 years experiance.
The new psychiatrist I have an appointment with graduated in 2009 and has been in practice since last year.
I am seeing a third-year med student. She is an idiot. Having said that, I just got transferred to her caseload from another third-year pdoc, and he was excellent. He acted like he had been practising for 40 years. Loved him. This one I’m seeing now is immature and a little unprofessional. She makes me so uncomfortable that my mouth gets dry, and I have to go get water. Next time I am bringing some in with me. So…bottom line is you never know what you’re going to draw. You probably expected me to say that.
Why couldnt you stay with the third year pdoc?
you were transfered because he was overloaded?
I’m a bit scared… my main pdoc has been saying the “R” word as well… but the other docs he works with are not that bad…
Ones a bit too pro-med for me… but the other two I like… I’ve had to see them in a pinch when my doc was injured.
My therapist must be in her early to mid 50s - My pdoc is probably in her late 40s early 50s.
My pdoc has a lot of experience and tends to be on the modern side of things - she never over prescribes and seems to be concerned with her patients physical health as well.
I think that age sometimes matters - If they are too old, they tend to be a bit set in their ways and if they are too young they tend to be inexperienced. Middle age seems to be a good place for pdocs
My psychiatrist is probably late 40s or early 50s as well. By the end of the year I will be transferring to the GP for meds if nothing funny happens though. The psychiatrist has been very good to me. Very understanding from the start. Needed just about 5 words and the right look to get my sympathy when I first got to him. I do think that was experience speaking, and of course, empathy. Had a meeting or two with my parents coming to meet him as well. He seemed to be able to grasp the individual personalities and relations among us pretty quickly. That stuff takes a fine eye, polished by experience. Lately things have been pretty stable so we would just chat about other things a lot too. At the GP’s there are lots of different doctors at work and the efflux rate (i looked this up in google translate) is high - so I will probably be seeing a different doctor each time I will get there. I went to the same practice when I decided to get help from my first psychosis. The guy I talked to came just out of med-school. I could tell that upon hearing my story he was in more distress than I was about telling it. Face turned all red and he had to swallow a couple of times before speaking. I was his first. I liked the guy though, it was my first time as well.
I have been around a lot of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatric social workers, psych nurses, psych techs and counselors for almost three decades. I can’t see that age is any determining factor. Like all human beings, they’re all over the block. I will say, however, that if there is a slight skew of preference for me in any one dimension & direction, it would be MA- & MS-level psychotherapists who were educated since the late 1990s in the beginning of the mindfulness era. Because the therapies they know how to use are generally more effective and in shorter order than those of the CBT or behavior modification eras. Most p-docs who graduated since then no longer do psychotherapy and many have very little understanding of it.
Main one is the generational gap between the age groups. Can work many ways though. As one of our most pleasant memories is often our grandparents.
Memorial conversation from my last tdoc. “I’m making a lot more mistakes and seriously thinking it’s time to retire.
Me “Hopefully you will tell me before that time when it’s time to move on?”
Her “You should be quite capable of knowing when it’s time to do that yourself!”
Me” If I was capable of that I wouldn’t need the therapy in the first place!"
Her…Smile
Me …Silence
I saw lady who was almost 80 and honest, most damaging person I ever met. Complain during the therapy sessions and never had that many thought broadcasters on me EVER!
Younger is not necessarily better as more of the under 30 somethings will thought broadcast. When county mental clinic started to hire kids who would mess with the patients, I left…
My psychiatrist is 60.
My pdoc is probably in his early sixties, has a lot of experience and has a good reputation at our state hospital.
I’ve come across pdoc’s who had been in practice many years and didn’t impress me. I think being a pdoc is a natural talent. If your younger pdoc has a natural aptitude for therapy he will be good for you. If he doesn’t have an aptitude for it, years of experience will not help him. I also think that different pdoc’s do better or worse with different personalities. If I was a pdoc there are certain types of people I wouldn’t have a good insight into.
I am under a nurse practitioner who looks to be in her mid-late 40s. The pdoc I saw was in mid-late 30s when I first saw him(now early-mid 40s) . The pdocs I have seen have mostly been in their 40s /50s.