[earthangel1]

My pdoc keeps giving me these low dose medications and forcing me to get off clonazepam even though I have PTSD. She is prescribing low doses of Ritalin even though before it took 20mg. She tells me take half a 25mg hydroxyzine for anxiety. That's nothing at all. Everything she prescribes me is so low dose. And she is trying to take me off the Risperdal even though I have psychotic features. Is she even doing her job. I want to find a new psychiatrist but I live in the middle of nowhere and a different one would be 1 hour away. I feel terrible. She is really pissing me off.

[Supersonic]

I feel for you. It's hard to be at our psychs mercy. Mine is very similar. I know he doesn't trust me with many medications. I get no refills on my clonazepam, he'd never consider putting me on Ritalin. He is very sensitive to concerns of med misuse even though I have never been guilty of that. I've questioned changing docs but I've been with him for about five years now. Give and take I guess.

[Victoria'smom]

I'm the opposite I went from low doses to high doses switching pdocs and I'm not to happy about it. 300 lamictal isn't a light dose. Did she say why she was taking you off the Risperdal? Is she trying to switch Your medication? Some doctors don't give anti psychotics except for extreme cases because of the risks. Some dr's will fight just as hard to keep their clients off controlled substances (ADHD meds,benzos). It allows them to see you less often. Are you in therapy? You need to find out why. It's possible she's slowly switching your cocktail or trying to get you on the lowest tolerable.

Sounds like she is doing a brilliant job to me! You do not want to be on clonazepam long term, psyc meds are not designed to be used at high doses for extended periods of time. The good doctors try to get you down from dependency when they think you are ready.

[LastQuestion]

I've spent the past 14 months getting off of medications and have come to realize that a great deal of my 'symptoms' included in my diagnosis were caused by medications. I wish the psychiatrist I was seeing had been more cautious, restrictive, judicious; had exercised a moderate and scientific approach to my treatment. Instead I got drugs, more drugs, then different drugs, and if a cocktail placed me in a state of mind short of rampant madness it was marked as success. Count yourself fortunate to be under the care of a practitioner less inclined to pummel your mind and body into submission via psychotropic agents.