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Originally Posted by Wanderlust90
I'm going home to visit in 2 weeks & managed to get an appointment with my old pdoc so I'll see what he thinks too. My new pdoc is very old school & runs the inpatient ward in the public hospital so I'm sure he's used to dealing with patients who are quite severerly ill. He believes it's anxiety, he's not sure that I have bipolar. First pdoc was pretty adamant about bipolar.
My one fear is this is early psychosis & it's currently at a level able to be treated & prevent actually psychosis which is obviously one of the most frightening things I can imagine, or perhaps it is severe anxiety.
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Yes, I think at the hospital he would treat hallucinations as par for the course. After all, it is a psychiatric hospital. But dealing with those patients in his outside private counseling practice is something completely different. I am not saying he cannot help you. I am not saying he is not helping you. There is just something lacking in the relationship here. Furthermore, since you have to deal with and have a high degree of function in the outside world, I think any kind of hallucination has to be dealt with differently than that which would occur inside a hospital. So at the very least, he owes you an explaination. Perhaps he is relying on you to hit the panic button if it happens again? If that is the case, he should give you parameters to go by in order for you to make this decision intelligently.
Tucson
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