Posted by Christ_empowered on June 14, 2011, at 14:26:50
In reply to Re: Going with out alot of medications I need...., posted by phillipa on June 14, 2011, at 11:33:09
dude, when parents are in charge of your mental health, they always screw it up. When I was 19-20, I lived at home and my parents made me see the most asinine, incompetent therapist ever. They liked him for some reason, at the time. Years later--they see my point. When I was hospitalized, I asked them to use their influence to get me a new shrink. They thought I needed a controlling douche bag (OK, not the terms they used, but you get where I'm going with this). Years later...they see my point.
If you can't move out yet or get your own doc, at least stop putting up with this one. I mean, she sounds like a bully, and you (or your parents) pay her for this crap "treatment." All she does, it sounds like, is treat you like a junkie. That's ridiculous. If you need prescriptions, go to a family doctor. You don't need some self-important, unhelpful shrink talking down to you and putting you high dose neuroleptics and wasting time and money.
Even the shrinks will respect you. I had this one shrink who prescribed me lots of Adderall but wouldn't give me benzos ("too addictive"--nice logic, right?). Anyway, I ended up being hospitalized and taken off the Adderall b/c I went nuts. She wanted me to do drug test and take depakote, and I walked out--I just plain refused to play that game, because I figured she'd just treat me like a drug abuser (kind of like your shrink treats you). 2 1/2 years later, I had to go back to her b/c the mental hospital I was locked in for a manic psychotic episode called her (God only knows why). This time around, we got along. She took me seriously. She gave me a couple months worth of Klonopin and sleeping pills.
There's a lot of bullying and name-calling built into the psychiatric system. If you stand up to them, they get pissed, but if you keep doing it, they'll start working with you and drop all the BS.
I think you should try to stop going to this doc, stop thinking about stimulants and your add/adhd, talk to general practitioner about setting up a more reasonable med combo (or taper off if they're really not helping), and live your life. Work on getting a job, going to school, making friends, whatever. Negotiate a better set-up with your parents.
I wish you luck, but you have to realize that you a) are capable of changing your life and b)are, at the end up the day, responsible for creating and living a productive, meaningful life. No shrink or amphetamine can do that for you, as I'm sure you're aware.
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