Is your psychologist/therapist more helpful/supportive Than your psychiatrist in a crisis situation feel free to explain or not explain. Or the other way round

[Cinnamon_Stick]

I just started seeing my pdoc and I dont feel comfortable telling her I am in a crisis situation. My Therapist is the most helpful.

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[stopdog]

I do not see an md so I can't compare. I have not found the therapist to be of any particular use in a crisis.

[confusedbyself]

I have a psych but he is just part of the agency that my t is with. I don't really speak to the psych. My t is the only support I have but I find it VERY hard to ask for help in the crisis times but I have a couple of times and in my last session I had a panic attack and he was WONDERFULLY helpful at calming it down.

So my vote is definitely for the t.

[Lauliza]

I haven't had a huge crisis but in times when I've called for extra support, my pdoc has been the one to respond. My T says I can call and she'll get back to me and has at times but not as consistently as my pdoc. This hasn't been a lot, maybe 4 times over 7 years.

[brillskep]

Generally it depends on the crisis - if the need is more for medication and medical attention or for emotional support and sharing / making sense of things. But I am speaking in general terms; I don't see a psychiatrist. On the other hand, a bad therapist or bad psychiatrist can definitely do more harm than good, particularly in a crisis situation.

[The_little_didgee]

Crisis means a life threatening situation to me.

When I was severely depressed I reached out to my mother instead of the mental health professionals, because I was scared of getting hospitalized. A stay in hospital would have intensified my pain, so I chose family instead. Anyway, the don't chart and bill. I also refuse to go to the ER for psychiatric reasons.

[Moreta]

i find them both equally helpful, but i usually just text the crisis line.

I don't have a Pdoc. I haven't had a major crisis, but T has always been available when I needed some extra support.

They are both helpful. It sort of depends on the severity. If things are so severe that I need meds/med change/hospitalization, my pdoc is most definitely more helpful. He has definitely seen me in much worse shape than my therapist has, and my therapist does defer to him in that severe a crisis.

[unlockingsanity]

I chose therapist because I can contact him easier, more quickly, and he understands the issues in more depth than my psychiatrist.

Pdoc. And not just because of the meds either - he's very skilled at talking and helping me cope.

[nottrustin]

They both are great however t is more accessible. I can email or call her when needed and she helps me through. Also she is in private practice her email and phone are not only business but personal so she is always getting the calls. With pdoc she works as part of a larger practice so when I call I get the answering service our receptionist. She only check her email when she is working.

[LonesomeTonight]

My T (and my marriage counselor) would be most helpful for me, partly because they know me well, are good at calming me down, and would be better able to assess what I really need in that situation. And they'd be less likely to overreact. My p-doc hasn't known me nearly as long, plus I only see her for like 25 minutes every 3 weeks. And the one time I did have a crisis and saw her the next morning, she seemed to immediately want to jump to a higher level of care, while my T, who I'd spoken with the night before and the next day, listened to what I wanted and what I thought would help me most. And she did a good job of calming me down.

[SeekerOfLife]

My therapist is great in a crisis. But the "crisis therapist" on staff is very uncaring and not helpful.

I think it does depend on what you determine to be a crisis I would say a crisis is when it is life threatening but I probably should have said that at the start. Anyway I don't find people to be helpful when I am in a crisis well not mental health workers actually surprisingly the last time I was in a crisis the police were much nicer and more helpful than the crisis team at the hospital and my usual supports.

[AncientMelody]

I put "other" because my psychiatrist IS my therapist. I've had two crisis or near crisis situations. One was handled well, the other she maybe fumbled a bit and was too quick to do a med adjustment-but to her credit she acknowledged that perhaps more intensive therapy was needed than she could provide-so she recommended someone to me. Ironically the crisis itself was kind of an eye-opener and turning point. So by the time I got a call from the other therapist, I no longer needed it.

I also chose other because in a pinch my family doctor has been a support in crisis. I started seeing her for life stressors and we were talking through things quite well until some hormonal changes and other things came into the mix and the anxiety really took hold. She started to treat the anxiety initially but between the hormone issues and zoloft side effects neither of us could see up from down so she felt I needed a psychiatrist, and I agreed. I was calling her a fair bit with panic attacks at that time and though she couldn't pull me out of the crisis per se she knew when to get more help.

If a crisis were to loom now (doubt it as I've been very stable thankfully) I'd contact my psychiatrist about it, I prefer to keep the mental health stuff with her now. However, if she was somehow not available, I would be comfortable reaching out to my family doctor. Even if her only recommendation was to "call a crisis line" or "go to the ER" somehow having someone who took care of me to be in the loop would make me feel better. I don't know why, maybe because I'm a medical practitioner myself and try my best to be available to my patients, sometimes it's nice to really feel cared for when I'm the patient

My psychotherapist is also my psychiatrist. He is helpful in a crisis - I rather believe that he has saved my life. I have previously had two therapists who were psychologists and I never contacted either of them when I was in any kind of crisis.

[retro_chic]

I'm not currently seeing a psychiatrist but back when I was seeing both a therapist and a psychiatrist, I'd say my T would have been more helpful. Mainly because I had been seeing her for longer and was more open with her therefore she knew me better. In saying that, my Pdoc at that time was quite nice and would always talk to me for a bit about how I was going and not just check my meds and shove me out the door so I was quite fond of her too and I think if I had to contact her during a crisis she would have been helpful.

[ChipperMonkey]

A crisis to me is life threatening and my therapists and docs all say to go to the ER. Anything less, no matter how bad it feels, isn't a crisis in my world. (Hell, with PTSD, at one point things were constantly bad......but not crisis/ER bad.....anything less than a true crisis and I was told to use my skills and handle it on my own. Well, their tough love worked because it taught me to rely on myself when I can and turn toward the proper help when things got bad.)

[gayleggg]

In the past I've found my pdoc to be most helpful but I haven't really had a crisis since I've been seeing this therapist. In the past I had a therapist that was very helpful in crisis situations as I had several while I was seeing her. Too bad I had to move. I liked her immensely.

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In a crisis situation I used to contact my Cpn but she has now left so now I contact my community mental health team.