I don’t even think they listen that well.
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If the question is," Who’s getting rich off peoples misery and suffering?" then they all have the answer.
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My pdoc freely admits prescribing meds is ‘trial and error’. It’s not a conclusive science psychiatry which is probably why there is a shortage of pdoc’s. At leat we live in better times for mental health and are allowed to live in the community. And when I say better, I am referring to not being put into an asylum. There still is a way to go.
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I’ve had some good ones. It’s a cruel world. I get like 15 minutes tops with a great psydoc. He’s relatively young but started at the end of institutions. He know’s his shite and knows me from when I’ve been rabidly psychotic to relatively normal.
I think that is important. We chat about cricket. He gauges how well I’m doing by my ability in conversation. He asks some questions which I answer honestly and we move from there.
It pays to be proactive and to be involved in your own treatment but a good psydoc is hard to find! If you do keep them!
Most pdocs practice the classical method of psychoanalysis where the psychotherapist is supposed to be the passive recipient of the patient’s converation, until the patient reaches the point where he or she projects his or her deep seated conflicts onto the psychiatrist. That approach can be very frustrating to the patient, and a lot of that frustration is valid. I don’t need to pay $150.00 an hour to talk to a fencepost. In my situation, I think I was subject to a lot of “countertransference” from my pdoc. I think that to him I was just another entitled kid who didn’t appreciate all that his parent’s had done for him. And my parents did do a lot for me. It might have been productive for my pdoc to prompt me towards that realization. Mostly I talked about my parent’s shortcomings in therapy, while they were paying $150.00 an hour to get me psychoanalysis.
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I’ve seen the same pdoc for the past 33 years. He’s good.
A 33 condition proves he doesn’t have the answer.
I don’t think finding The Answer is the answer. There is only ‘an’ answer (if you’re lucky) with the word an said in a very small and modest voice.
Then he’s your friend, not your doctor. A paid for friend.
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Wow! 33years is amazing. 9 years is the longest I have ever had a pdoc at a time.
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I am so grateful for my “pdoc” who is actually a nurse practitioner. She listens to me and asks for my input on changes. I have had nothing but bad luck with actual psychiatrists, to me they are always rude and don’t listen.
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