I DID dump my last one. (And have been dumped by one myself--ha! What a jerk!) I think you're right to process your feelings to see where they might be coming from. My last one was older than God and thought he was God. We disagreed about his yanking me off all my anti-depressants cold turkey. He claimed the symptoms I was having were all in my head because I had read the stories from other patients--and that there was no scientific evidence for my claims. Well, that got my dander up and I printed off a bunch of studies that verified my symptoms and even made copies for the social worker in his office who I was also seeing. (THAT really ticked him off!) The next time I came in, he tried to convince me that I was being "grandiose" and just "trying to get attention." He said "he had been taking people off those drugs cold turkey for years!" Well, I thought I was justified in finding another psychiatrist, anyway!
Thanks for letting me vent.
As others have said, though, and you're wondering about, maybe something that was said has just triggered some anger in you......I actually didn't dump the doctor without putting a lot of thought into it and processing it with other people, like you're wisely doing.
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