[PsychNitrous]

So, I've been struggling with the clinic I go to right now. Not quite so much with my current therapist, but definitely with my pdoc and the clinic's policies. My pdoc has shown very little caring about me, and I've been angry with him since our last appointment, like 2 weeks ago. I wanted to change docs, and was told that the policy at the clinic is to get approval from your current pdoc before scheduling anything. That got me even more angry! Not to mention that it took almost a full week for them to get back to me with his "approval". So last week I started looking for another provider. It took a couple of days of having the phone numbers, but I called around today and got an appointment with someone for the 30th of this month. It's further out than I would like, but not quite as far out as I expected to get.

Now I'm super anxious about the next few weeks until that appointment. I heard from my current clinic right after I scheduled that appointment, letting me know that I got the OK to change pdocs and wanting to schedule me with someone else. That's not until next month, so I have time to make any changes necessary if I end up changing to this new provider. I'm also so anxious about seeing my current t again. We have an appointment next week and the week after. I don't really want to go anyway, and was already considering cancelling my appointment next week. But now that I'm planning on going somewhere else, I really don't want to go. But if I don't go and just cancel everything, I could end up SOL if this new provider doesn't work out. I'm just so nervous about it all, I've never "shopped around" for therapy before. I didn't have a choice when I first went, because I was underage, and the second t I saw was in college, so I didn't have many options but it didn't matter because I liked her a lot. I guess I just thought it would work out that way this time again, and it's making me anxious.

[growlycat]

Are you in any kind of talk therapy or just seeing a psychiatrist that gives meds?

I personally have not had great success with docs who see people for 15 minutes, write a script then boot you out the door. My most caring T's have been therapists who spend 45-50 minutes actually talking about your issues.

[PsychNitrous]

Originally Posted by growlycat

Are you in any kind of talk therapy or just seeing a psychiatrist that gives meds?

I personally have not had great success with docs who see people for 15 minutes, write a script then boot you out the door. My most caring T's have been therapists who spend 45-50 minutes actually talking about your issues.

I'm doing both right now, at the same clinic. My psychiatrist has been exactly that, 15-20 min sessions without much concern about what he's giving me. Last time he even renewed my script for a med that I had a bad reaction to!

My T does 45 min sessions now, but we've had some kind of issue. I don't know if she's just not trained in dealing with some of the problems I want to work on, or if there's some kind of transference going on, or what. But she's not been exceptionally good or bad, really. A little distant on some subjects that I would expect a T to focus more on.

[growlycat]

Will the clinic let you switch Doctors? Maybe start with the pdoc, then if things don't improve, switch therapists?

[PsychNitrous]

Originally Posted by growlycat

Will the clinic let you switch Doctors? Maybe start with the pdoc, then if things don't improve, switch therapists?

They did call me back today to let me know that the pdoc I was seeing approved my transfer to a different pdoc, so it's an option. I'm just starting to get really wary of the clinic overall. Their policies are just really odd, and this is the second time I've been there and not connected with the T I was seeing. I don't even feel like I can be honest with my current T, because as soon as I bring up some fringe problem she swings all focus onto fixing that, even if it's not something I'm asking for help with. Then when I start to withdraw because I'm not getting what I asked for, she goes back to asking me to do the same things over and over.

[kecanoe]

Sounds like no matter what happens with the second clinic, the first one is not going to work out. If you liked the t, then staying with the clinic and putting up with their policies and possibly not liking the second pdoc would make sense.
Since you don't like the t nor the policies, would you really go back there is the second clinic doesn't work?

[PsychNitrous]

Originally Posted by kecanoe

Sounds like no matter what happens with the second clinic, the first one is not going to work out. If you liked the t, then staying with the clinic and putting up with their policies and possibly not liking the second pdoc would make sense.
Since you don't like the t nor the policies, would you really go back there is the second clinic doesn't work?

Possibly. There are only like 3 clinics around here that accept my insurance, and there may be a conflict of interest at the third. I'd check into that before going back, but if where I go now is my only option, I guess that's all I have.

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