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Old Aug 12, 2006, 10:33 PM
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Evangelista Evangelista is offline
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The last Psychiatrist I saw..the initial eval was very one sided..he told me I presented with complex traumatic stress issues..wanted me to stop working, and prescribed huge doses of neuroleptics..when he asked why I was changing from my previous Pscyh Dr..I told him about the "self disclosure" of one of his patient's being a serial killer whose only reason to kill was his OCD, and then went into great detail describing the office visit that produced a violent outcome..which set off an abreaction due to my past trauma issues..all this new Dr was concerned about was if the dr "at least changed the patient's name"..for crap sakes..you wonder why I have a hard time with these folks..I dont care if the dr had called the other patient "Mickey Mouse"..a name is not what set off the abreaction and my terminating that relationship..I never went back to him after the initial eval...so I am not relishing the idea of going to another one..my MD wont prescribe even sleep aides to me because of the psychiatric diagnoses..I know there are decent Psychiatrists out there..but the only thing Managed Care has managed to do..is to make them hard to find..most wont even file insurance anymore..one of the reasons I foot the bill for my own therapy..a hefty price to pay..and its hard some times financially..but this is my life I am fighting for..not just my mind..if I have to work two jobs to do it..then so be it..I dont sleep anyway myswell work..but I am not looking forward to going back trying to find another Psychiatrist..
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