Posted by Outremont on May 10, 2001, at 21:42:25
In reply to Re: So-called expert expertise, posted by Fenka on May 10, 2001, at 20:22:01
> I couldn't have said it better. I think it is worse in the psychiatric field than in the regular medical field. Patients seeking mental health often have a harder time articulating their symptoms. It is easier to say "My toe hurts" than to explain the numbness or agitation, whichever it should be.
> A bone is a bone, but a brain is so much more. There can also be hormone factors and other illnesses.Some psy are so into their "tests" that they fail to see the entire person.
> I have been very disappointed with the psychiatrists that I have seen. They seem more angry than I do. IMHO
> Does anyone else feel that psychiatry has more ego attached to it than other medical fields?
Some study I saw indicates this field is high risk for depression. At least they are getting paid to be depressed. Kidding.My situation is this: psychiatry is covered by Health Care but I am finding nothing but ill-informed pill-pushers in my quest. Psychologists are not covered and I don't have a private plan. $100 an hour, after taxes, just puts it out of reach. So much for the prescribed dual-approach to this disease.
I heard from a friend that her husband had an incredible change in his condition after being prescribed amphetymine-based stimuants. I have been flat as a board for 2 years now and was basically desperate to get some sort of energy happening as a basis for change. Amphetymines are not available as prescrips in Canada I take it, and the nearest thing I could find is Ritalin. I got an immediate boost but am starting to find the effect fading a bit, a week later. It's just a major ordeal to go shopping, I can't believe I have sunk to this abject state, but there it is, staring me in the face each morning.
THe psychiatrist knew nothing about ritalin really, other than it was used on children. On the strength of my own knowledge on the subject, and determination I guess, he prescribed it, without even suggesting close monitoring and follow-up. I simply find this unethical.
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