Poll: Do you have a psychiatrist?

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In the United States most primary care doctors won’t prescribe antipsychotics.
Yes I have a psychiatrist.
Always have

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No i just have a normal doc, used to have a psychiatrist.

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Yes, but I hardly ever see him. That’s because the schizophrenia symptoms are mild,at worst. It’s the bullying related trauma,(social) anxiety, and autism, that are more disabling.

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I do.

There, I said it. Not at the altar, though :sweat_smile:

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I haven’t seen any one in a mental health team for a few years. And when I did I found seeing a Pdoc a drag. For me 99% of my appointments with my Pdoc were just him asking if I had any symptoms and whether I was still taking my medication.

I said this before but I had to ask my psychiatrist 3 times to change my medication as I felt very sedated on what I was on, and eventually I had to look at the drugs people recommended on here and literally said “I want to go on Lurasidone” to which thankfully he did agree to. But why did I have to ask so many times. My friend that was a doctor said I basically did his job for him.

I would love Pdocs to look at people’s lives beyond psychotic symptoms. It seems like thats all they focus on regardless of how the medication they give you affects other aspects of your well being.

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I have a doctor who doesn’t exactly know what to do with me because I am the only patient she has that functions in the manner I do. She readily admits I know more about CBT, DBT, and ACTp than she does. She basically writes scrips for what I ask for and tells me to reach out if I swim out too far and the tide grabs me. She said the one thing she knows about people with my level of self-confidence is that we’re good at getting our tail in a crack and being too proud to ask for help.

She’s not wrong on that last one,.

Edit: She did say that if I tell her I need a bed she’ll find me one somewhere, right away. She says if I say I’m in trouble, she’ll believe it.

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I am seeing the doctor next week

Hope everything will be ok

Need to decide if going up on clozapine is the right thing to do

On 550mg a day but my tests still show lower than the expected level in blood

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I have a psychiatric nurse. She is very helpful and stays in good contact with me and mostly lets me do what I wish to do

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I’ve had a brilliant psychiatrist for 10 years. I have another one now since they have moved me to another CMHT. I’ve yet to meet them and don’t really want to.

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Agreed. For psychiatrists making someone better means decreasing the positive symptoms only, not improve the quality of life or make someone functional.

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I see mine once in six months and, just say I’m ok,so she can print report…
Then with that referal go to GP and she prescribes meds for six months…
So next time I’ll se p doc is December..

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Same with me. 15

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I have a nurse practitioner who is my pdoc

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psych nurse practitioner also, i had one psych doctor which was my first, ever since all my insurance and transportation will allow is the psych np i have had

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I have a 5 minute phone meeting with my psychiatrist every six weeks. Almost every call goes literally the same:
Him,“How are you doing?”
Me, “Fine.”
Him, “How’s the medication working?”
Me, “Good.”
Him, “Sounds like you’re doing good.”
Me, “Yeah.”
Him, “OK, see you in six weeks.”

That’s pretty much it. I got sick of how it goes every time and about two years ago I tried telling him some problems and how I’m really doing and it threw him for a loop and he got a little mad so now I stick to the script and he never asks about any problems I might be having.

I don’t like how it’s going with my new therapist either. I guess we’re still getting to know each other but we just chat about camping and other innocuous things and I realized after our fourth visit that we aren’t talking about my problems in life except he encourages me to get hobbies and to take walks. I guess it’s going OK, and like it should, but I wonder if I should tell him my paranoia and delusions. Maybe I should keep getting to know him better first.

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I’m sorry @77nick77 that your mental health team doesn’t encourage honesty about symptoms from patients and only wants to hear good news. I’ve been a victim of that myself too but I fight it with a personal policy of absolute, brutal honesty at all times no matter how much they don’t like it.

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I see my pdoc every three months…clinic rules…tha’ts the max time they will allow…so I go four times a year…no biggie…I’ve known the pdoc almost twelve years in October…wow. didn’t realize I’ve had her that long. I just talk about me while i’ m in there and news of the family that type of thing. she always asks? any problems? nope…ok see you in 3.

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All I have is a pharmacist at the VA hospital where I receive care. I assume that she has prescribing powers although she has yet to prescribe me anything.

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I laughed and laughed at this @Andrey. Haha!!

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