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Jan 29, 2014, 09:01 PM
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Recently I decided to undertake working on healing my brain for a change, body, mind, spirit are all important, well the body and spirit were doing great, my mind however.. not so much.
SO i decided to stop hiding and being ashamed and scared of my thoughts/feelings and come out of the mental health broom closet so to speak. It's been interesting. I approached my MD whom I had seen for 7 years now, she's seen the way I deal with my health, the changes I have done, but we've never discussed mental health what so ever as I have a Pdoc. Well. I asked for a referral to get a full psych eval and therapy as I am not doing so great and my Pdoc is great for pushing paper work and prescribing medications. She freaked. Told me to come back in two weeks. Said if I felt this way I should go to emergency. Thing is I was sharing every day symptoms, that I've had since I was about 7 years old! Her treatment of me that day sent me into a downward spiral including SI. At the two week follow up appt, I wrote her a letter explaining how Iam feeling and what I need from her, as my doctor. She flipped again. I got upset, and rightfully so, and said that "this is F'ing pathetic, I'm F'ing outta here" to which I slammed the door open and left the entire building! In tears. I felt so abandoned. On the way home I get pulled over by a cruiser and two officers. She called the police on me. I was fine, I wasn't anything other than absolutely frustrated with a system that is not designed to help and I am getting tired of fighting with doctors. Anway, got pulled over, and questioned, and two more cars rolled in, THREE cruisers just because I yelled at her and stormed out of her office (oh and I ieft my husband in the room with her! LOL) Today in the mail I get a registered letter that Ihad to sign for saying that she is no longer my doctor and non of her colleges in her clinic with service me, OR MY FAMILY! Like serious WTF! I don't know whether to just let it go and focus on moving forward or at least file a complaint with the medical association. What would you do?
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Jan 29, 2014, 10:31 PM
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Wow Jules. I don't blame you for being a bit out of sorts over this.
I can't really suggest what to do as far as the filling out of a report. If you feel that it would make you feel better that you at least got the satisfaction of filling out one, then go for it. I will say however that most of the times when someone who is under psychiatric care the medical profession tends to just lay blame on the mental illness. I have worked in the field and know that it can be the perfect scapegoat for most anything that comes with no incriminating physical or recorded (video, audio) evidence of someone's claims. I'm sorry that you had to deal with this. Believe me, I understand. Good luck to you.
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Jan 30, 2014, 11:17 AM
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Hey, Jules. That must have been awful. Don't blame you for being upset. I can't believe a doctor not seeing you were reaching out for help. I would probably just forget about it for all the reasons Canyon said about reporting. I'm sorry you had to go through this. Start hunting a new doctor who I hope will be more understanding.
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Jan 30, 2014, 11:19 AM
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Jan 30, 2014, 11:46 AM
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I went through all the same types of things with doctors and therapists before. i understand you and know where you're coming from. I fought with doctors but it didn't help and the system was so messed up in the 1980's when i was first diagnosed, I was so bad off i couldn't help myself. I was actually put in seclusion for a reason i don't even know why, but i think it was because i said something one of the nurses didn't like, i had to have 5 cops control me and they shot me up with thorizine, to this day don't even know why i was put in seclusion, and the reason the cops came up was because the stupid nurse said things that weren't true about me, it was a religious thing.
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Jan 30, 2014, 08:00 PM
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We are going to call my SO's old MD and see if she's accepting new patients. Just a bummer really as this office was a five min walk from us, very handy as we don't have a car. Just our bicycles, feet and public transit!
I've decided to just let it go and not do anything, simply as I dont' have the time, nor energy to put into that when I have been offered a full eval and CBT at CAMH (hospital) via my Pdoc. And someone can get me to and from my appointments. Sounds odd perhaps, but I am excited. I know it's going to be hard, emotionally, etc, but I feel it will be worth it. THanks for all the support, it means a lot.
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