Posted by Anna Laura on February 10, 2002, at 17:36:05
In reply to Psycho-Babble not helping anymore, posted by 3 Beer Effect on February 10, 2002, at 15:22:30
Perhaps more dangerously, I noticed in myself & many other 'psycho-babblers' that by reading this board & about psychopharmacology on the internet we begin to assume that we know better than our psychiatrist. Pyschiatrists have to go through medical school w/ psychiatry & psychopharmacology training & ~ seven years of residency in psychiatry (often in mental hospitals) & most have probably seen 'everything under the sun'. I recently overheard a doctor complain "now, with the internet, everyone's an instant expert!"
Hi 3 BeerI'm sorry to hear you're going to leave this board.
Nevertheless, you shouldn't assume that all Psychiatrists are experts, because it's not so. If they were the experts they claim to be, psycho babble board wouldn't exist.
I was misdiagnosed by a psichiatrist: i suffered from major depression and he gave me benzos at high doses. I kept getting worse and he said it was my fault cause i was a junkie. After three years i became psychotic.
I could have died because of that fatal error.
Thanks god i met another pdoc (a competent one this time) who gave the right medications.
I think many people on this board can relate to that, as we're sharing similar stories, not to mention those pdocs who still refuse to prescribe certain drugs such as Selelegine that have been proved to be very effective and that could be life savers for many of us.
I have been depressed for eleven years so far (i thank my first pdoc for that cause he made my depression chronic) and i would do anything possible to feel better and to regain a meaningful, worth living life.
Again, i'm sorry you're leaving but don't ever assume we're self medicating jerks or that this board it's not useful for some of us.
poster:Anna Laura
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