I was also very hurt by my psychologist I had been seeing for years. After my first manic episode I had no choice but to put myself in inpatient, where I was diagnosed with Bipolar. When I got out I made appts. to go see both my psychologist and psychiatrist. In the meeting they basically accused me of inducing my mania with illegal drugs. In the past I had been very honest with them about my usage, and they still did not believe me when I told them this was not the case. I told them that the doc in inpatient said that it was brought on by using 2 antidepressants, which I had been on for years. I was not blaming them. I trusted them. I had been seeing them for 5+ years for depression. I feel like they thought they were doing the best for me at the time.
After leaving the meeting I began stewing. How dare they? They asked me to come in for labs, basically asking me to prove it, which I would have in a second. I was so mad I cancelled all appointments and looked elsewhere. Sorry for the long story, but my point is this. I was seeing doctors at a corporate company, which I think they were afraid I would sue them and they were trying to cover their butts. Maybe they felt they couldn't help me anymore. Maybe they felt I was lying. Who knows, but the bottom line is that it can REALLY hurt when you feel like they betrayed you or just don't try to help you.
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