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Originally Posted by Blueberrybook
@Blue_Bird - Sorry your pdoc appt. may not have gone as well as you hoped. I too get a bit anxious at pdoc appts. He often remarks that I'm fidgety. I'm glad your doc took your sleep problems seriously and was proactive with it. I hope the med changes help you. Have you scheduled to see a backup T while yours is out?
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Yes I called my the office when I got home today (they all work in the same office and left a message with my therapists supervisor who I believe is the backup clinician for my therapist according to what I was told and I left a message for her asking to see her or whoever they could get me in with.
My psychiatrist was insistent that I go across the hall directly after my appointment to their living room program which is like a drop in program where you can just go to a clinician immediately and also talk with peer counselors and stuff. But I didn’t think it was that urgent so I left/walked out after I scheduled my follow up with him and when I got home I called and left a message for that supervisor to set me up with a backup clinician till my therapist comes back.
He’s a really good psychiatrist. I like him a lot. He’s in his 60’s and is from Poland originally, has an accent. Very friendly. I wasn’t sure I’d connect to another psychiatrist after my one of 8 years left the practice I was devastated. She was so awesome. But I’ve been seeing this guy maybe a year now and he’s really a good psychiatrist and I’m happy to have another great one. Though he is very insistent and particular on certain things like no weed or edibles and wouldn’t sign my payee paperwork for me to become my own payee until I stopped vaping/taking edibles for a month lol but after a month of not doing that he did sign my paperwork and I’m my own payee now. and he still asks at every visit since then whether I’ve smoked/vaped or taken any edibles lol and he’s now insistent that I need therapy while my therapist is gone
We talked about the dissociation and that the Thorazine has helped a lot with that
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi
Diagnosis:
Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type
PTSD
Social Anxiety Disorder
Anorexia Binge/Purge type