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Originally Posted by vonmoxie
What an interesting turn of events, how a prescriber's personality change could have altered the trajectory of so many patients.
Precaryous, if you are comfortable saying, did you find him to be a thoughtful practitioner at the time you saw him? It sounds as though he may have developed a double life of sorts, between patients who were inherently drug-seeking and those who were not, one life satisfying his relationship with power and money and the other life, if there was one, of still ministering to the needful whether as spiritual satisfaction or merely as a front for his other life.
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I found him caring and wanting to be helpful. He was charismatic and radiant. Just being in his presence helped my depression go away. He made me feel special...I was listened to...he took me seriously.
But now, looking back, I see that he was careless in many ways. He wasn't always great at keeping the clients needs ahead of his own needs. He was a maverick- he had a great deal of authority of his own being an MD but often liked to challenge authority.
Without going into unsubstantiated detail, his boundaries were very very loose.
I didn't know much of anything about boundaries, ethics, and psychotherapy at the time. Subsequent therapists have stated that his loose boundaries unintentially likely set me up to be exploited by AbusivPDoc...because I thought that's how California PDocs operated.
I was around him often the years I knew him. He hospitalized me once...I never saw him pandering to drug seeking clients. I saw him detox clients. Of course, he could have been writing scripts at his gym at the time. I was with him outside of therapy on a few occasions ...and I never noticed anything related to drugs.