I first saw a pdoc in the emergency after my suicide attempt. I told him I speak to Jesus and that an angel just got in the room from the window. I told him I experienced miracles and that the angel wants me to go with him to heaven which I thought I need to kill myself to do it. He asked me if I ever smoked pot then he said I have schizophrenia.
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My first meetings with psychiatrists went remarkably well.
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My first appointment with a psychiatrist
took place almost 5 years ago.
She was nice.
But not very good.
I saw other three psychiatrists,
so I can compare.
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my first apt with a pdoc was the first time i was in the psych ward. but the pdocs changed there regularly as it was a university campus and it was always pdocs that were finishing their schooling. It was hard talking to them though…
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I wasn’t honest about the voices, but at the time I thought they were real. So they put me on meds for everything in the hospital. I was miserable.
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What did you tell the Dr? What were your symptoms?
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My psychiatrist asked me some questions, told me i have psychosis, and gave me a prescription for risperidone.
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Did you tell the dr about your symptoms? What were they?
She was a good listener.
Usually psychiatrists don’t
do this valuable service.
It’s therapists’ duty to discuss.
Anyway.
I knew something was wrong
with me.
I had severe depression for 2 months,
then euphoria in the middle
of depression, and depression
in the middle of happiness.
I had severe mood swings.
And i had unusual beliefs.
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So you have sza and not sz?
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The usual: voices and music, visual hallucinations, delusions about being in hell. I dont remember exactly what i told her but apparently flat affect is also something i have.
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No, it was just the prodromal phase.
I haven’t any mood swing since then.
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i was very confused and also manic when i came in there. I don’t remember much about the talks tbh. I was being followed by the CIA and they were messing with my mind by sending me voices. Also had a lot of anxiety for which they gave lorazepam (temesta) Then they thought i had bipolar but before my time in second psych ward they changed it to sz.
In that first psych ward they gave me litium and invega.
But it was really hard talking as i was so confused.
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I have no idea when my first appointment was.
Think it was before I was detained in Youth Custody
If it was when I got put in the mental hospital Forensic ward, then I basically was trying to convince them I was a Shaman sent from Mars
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My first pdoc I saw was in Manhattan. I was brought by the security of the office of my employer in an ambulance cuffed to Bellevue Hospital.
Don’t remind me.
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Seconded. Not really something I want to be thinking about either
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I got in to the hospitals psychiatrist about 1 year after my first episode. There was a 1 year waitlist.
Then I didn’t really disclose much I think I just said I was hearing voices and had mania. Cuz I wasn’t sure what would happen if I disclosed more.
So she told me a few different meds I was suppose to take but I never took them
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First pdoc. Starting asking me about my special powers I said I had to the police but I clammed up. I read some reports they wrote about me at that time and the pdoc thought I had ASD as I didnt make any eye contact during the whole meeting plus she said I had black and white thinking. I kept talking about my neighbour burying me in a wooden suitcase in my garden which they thought was literal thinking but turned out to be a delusion when I trusted them more and opened up.
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Before this I had told my gp doctor about my hallucinations. So that’s why he referred me to the psychiatrist
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It was some time in the early 2000s. I was very naive and thought that a psychiatrist probably would be able to help. I was equally naive about the paroxetine (Seroxat) a GP had prescribed me before, thinking it would help, but it made me spend most of my time in bed. I told the psychiatrist about concentration problems, being unable to write a paper for my bachelor’s degree. She felt it might be some kind of OCD, because she thought I was trying too hard, and prescribed me risperidone (Risperdal), and naively again, I thought it might help.
I’m not so naive any more, maybe even a bit cynical.
-Albert.
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