Posted by azurebay on May 22, 2002, at 18:17:50
In reply to Re: watch out girls-renelso 1, posted by supergirl on May 21, 2002, at 12:52:49
About Those Pet Peeves:
Yikes! Trust me to offend someone my second post (lol supergirl). Of course you'll have to take into account the fact that alcohol (my one night fling per week) may have played a part in that dubiously misspelled mess of a post. Sorry about that.
In all seriousness, Gare is right about a good combo of a psychiatrist + therapist, and that was my honest intent - better said, "The bottom-line."
Let me just say this, and I'll stop before I put foot-in-mouth again. THE PROBLEM WITH PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS, at least IMHO, is the range and scope of any Tom, Dick or Harry, M.D. who is unquestioningly given power to prescibe them! I mean think about it; would you see an OBGYN for a Neurological problem? A psychiatrist for a pregnancy test (and believe me, I once asked my pdoc to do that for my g/f, now wife, and he didn't have the foggiest clue about how to order the test... whew, thank God!)?
Unfortunately, the public in general has fallen prey to heavy media influence, with a lot of "unspecialized" practitioners also falling prey to both patient pressure as well as the wine-me-dine-me pharmaceutical reps. Next thing ya know, millions of people are taking psychotropic medications... and THAT should (for the most part) be left to the pros, aka the psychiatrists.
I think any General Practioner of Medicine (ya I mean the vast majority of ALL YOU GP's or Family Docs, Physician's Assistants, Nurse Practitioners), have no business playing psychiatrist or writing scripts for these meds except to, perhaps, prescribe-AND-refer. Period. Ya haven't enough time to keep up on the latest anti-fungal agents, let alone grasp the complex neuro-chemistry of these disorders and the faces behind the masks in five-minute office visits, and that's the truth.
Hope the pet peev is now clarified. Oh, btw, I don't have a GP, but now have a great OBGYN, along with my psychiatrist...
Smiles Always,
Azure
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