My therapist and psychiatrist for over 8 years terminated me.
A few months ago I wasin a temporary bad financial situation, so I told my doctor I couldnt see her for a few visits, she insisted that because I was so "special to her" (she often says that she considers me like a son) that I needn't pay and I could pay her back when I had the money.
Unfortunately I'm using my money right now to help my sick mother in a couple of months she will get her SSI disability money and a years worth of back pay (she will gets tens of thousands of dollars which she will share with me).
But my doctor wouldn't wait.
It seems that for the first 6 years she was the best therapist one could ask for but recently in the past two years, has been getting greedy and money oriented.
She did the following questionable things:
-said "she loved me" as in affection not romance, and that I was "like a son to her"
-accepted expensive gifts from me for her two daughters
-agreed to officiate my wedding (it will be in Miami Beach no less (I'm in NYC) She would pay for her own travel expenses.
- refused to write only a month's worth of prescriptions when it would take two months for me to see a new psychiatrist. These prescriptions include the Benzodiazepines Xanax and Klonopin (the latter which I take daily at the high dose of 8 mg. a day) Benzos are treated as Schedule II drugs in NY so I can't get refills, as well as Adderall.
-when I asked her what to do to avoid withdrawals she told me I could get the scrips from the ER!
I simply went to her office and stared her down and got the scripts.
-she gossips about me (for example she told me she was talking about me to my ex-psychiatrist but refused to say what she said about me)
-the majority of later appointments in the last couple of months where filled with her repeating the phrases "I don't work for free" and "where's my money"
I feel so stupid, I really misjudged her character, but she really changed in 8 years.
So is this malpractice or not?
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