Posted by calamityjane on July 27, 2007, at 19:35:11
In reply to wow..., posted by med_empowered on July 26, 2007, at 8:13:11
> that's an intense situation. I don't know how they did meds in the 80s, but that combo looks ridiculous. 2 tricyclics? Several benzos? The Halcion in particular is disturbing; from the get-go, it was associated with paranoia and increasing depression. Why was it RX'd along with Restoril (which one thinks would have been enough of a sleep aid, as long as the dose was ramped high enough) ?
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> This whole situation strikes me as very, very shady. The pdoc came to your house? I don't know how Texan shrinks in the 1980s did medicine, but these days...having a shrink make a housecall is almost unheard of. Was he a friend of the family?
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> Have you asked your mother why she called the pdoc, and not a normal doc? Perhaps she could shed some light on what was going on.
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I have tried talking with my mom - she is defensive. I think she was just ignorant when it came to psychiatric treatments. She is one to trust a doctor and do what he says, without question him. She is a labor&delivery nurse, so especially at that time she had no clue about psych medicines.
He was not a friend of the family - they first met the doctor during a hospital visit, but my mother will not tell me what the visit was. I am in process of getting hospital records... Hopefully I will learn more at that time.In 1984, at the beginning of his natural depression, he looked normal in pictures. But by 1985, he looked like the twighlight zone. Even family snapshots of all 5 of us on the couch look ridiculous. We are all smiling, and he is zoned out with no expression on his face. I am sitting in his lap and laughin - he is behind me just staring in to space. 5 or 6 pics of that same pose on the couch, and ALL are of him just staring into space.
He was not like that before the meds....,
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