Posted by deniseuk190466 on January 3, 2007, at 18:28:58
In reply to Re: Not depressed - just a very unhappy person » deniseuk190466, posted by SLS on January 3, 2007, at 16:14:57
Scott,
I love you :-) you always know the right things to say.
What worries me though is that the position that this man holds. I am fortunate in that I have seen some good psychiatrists in the past, ones that have encouraged me, listened to me and reassured me. So I know that they are out there and that I am know that I do suffer from something (not sure what exactly) but I know that it is not all in my mind. However, if I was a more passive person who had not had the good fortune to have had medication work in the past and who had not had the good fortune to have had other opinions (which differed from him), then this man would make me want to give up all hope, or might, make me really doubt and question what I was feeling.
It scares me that this person (who may be academically qualified) is so short on people skills and yet is ultimately responsible for so many mentally ill patients.
It also concerns me that his belief seems to be that if you aren't either Schitzophrenic or Bipolar then you don't have a valid mental illness. This centre seems to think that if you are just depressed and still functional then the agenda is to pull you off medication altogether and make you think your way out of it.
And from what I've heard in the US this is becoming the trend, that they are trying to get people off medication completely and give them CBT instead.
I can't help feeling I think because of the way I feel rather than the other way around. If I feel ok then my thoughts are ok.
Anyway, thanks for the nice response and glad to hear that you are doing well on your current medicine regime.
Denise
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