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Apr 05, 2013, 08:36 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by jesusplay
my brain, i keep hearing this weird sound and my brain feels funny. Am I just making this up? How has she been practicing for 31 years?
I show up 15 minutes early for my 4pm... I HAD TO WAIT UNTIL 420pm.
I sit down, she ask how I'm feeling today. I tell her. Then I just sit there in silence why she starts typing up a good damn storm, I was about to explode. she ask how I've been sleeping, I tell her I got 2 hours last night, a total of 22 hours since sunday. Then more silence. She ask how the wellburtin is going, I tell her I was high as **** monday, balanced tuesday, high as again Wednesday, thursday normal, today I'm irritated and angry and I don't know why.
Was in her office for 30 minutes. I talked for 5 minutes total, she talked for a total of 2 minutes. The rest of the time she's just typing. WHAT THE **** WAS SHE TYPING?
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This sounds very frustrating. I think since pdocs have so little time to see us, it's an art in and of itself to communicate our concerns and needs -which can be very complicated- to them in such a short period of time. But sometimes anyway, I think it can be worth it to work on that relationship. Well, to be clear, my therapist has told me -when I've vented about my pdoc- that it's important to be honest about how I feel and work on that relationship like with any other provider of mine.
Since there's so much going on, a suggestion I have is to write out beforehand what you're experiencing, your questions, your concerns, and think ahead of time about what you need out of that appointment. She doesn't seem to be 'hearing' you and I know it can be difficult to communicate as coherently as one would like when everything's so bad and chaotic. But since she can't read your mind, I'd bring in a list of your concerns and be clear that you need x and y questions and concerns addressed fully before you leave that appointment.
Have you tried mood stabilizers or it's been decided to go the antidepressant route for some reason?
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