Posted by Quintal on December 3, 2006, at 12:02:16
In reply to Illness increases vulnerability to the irrational, posted by Squiggles on December 3, 2006, at 9:10:42
I wish I could go to a pdoc and let him call the shots Squiggles. That hasn't been the case in my country where most of us get what we we're given in medical care and have to live with it regardless.
The last pdoc handed me a script for 30mg isocarboxazid, asking me "That's Parnate isn't it?" No checking the trade name or dose in the pdoc's drug manual or anything. He asked me what dose people were taking on the net and prescribed it to me. How am I supposed to trust this guy to know which medications are safest and likely to be most effective for me if I ever do have a complete flip out and can't check his prescriptions for him? It's bone chilling to think about at times. This is the same one that tried to tell me Zyprexa was a regular AD like Prozac.
>Under those conditions, you should not make
your own decisions, but rely on a good,
biomedically inclined doctor (not a naturopath,
not a faith healer, not an activist, not
a vitamin pusher, etc.).And if you have access only to a third-rate lazy pdoc (who is in fact little more than a puppet for the drug companies, and paid to push their latest freshly patented product) then what do you do? What is the only sane thing to do but take control of your own treatment in the best way you can?
>And you should go to him/her pronto, as this
is the signal that you are on the edge of
a precipice from which if you fall, you may
not be able to return.At best I have an appointment every six months. I have to stick with this regardless of my mental state and drug side-effects etc. I was recently told by my GP to persevere with the Lamictal rash because I would have to wait up to a year to see the pdoc again and she is limited to what she can prescribe herself. I refuse to take any more because I think it could be dangerous with the side effects I was beginning to suffer.
I think you've raised a good point Squiggles, so I don't want to come across as joining in the scrum, but to me at least psychiatry is beginning to look more and more like a sophisticated, government sanctioned form of quackery itself.
Q
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