Posted by lissa on June 23, 2001, at 23:38:20
In reply to When do you consult your pdoc?, posted by mair on June 23, 2001, at 22:08:03
Here's what I think:
You seem to have enough common sense about your medication regimen and I don't think you should feel discouraged about the ways your doctor and therapist have, in my opinion, speculated (rather speciously) about your psychological motives. If there were an emergency, you would call your pdoc immediately, right? And you wouldn't, say, take the whole darn vial at once, right? I think these are the relevant questions to be asking. I'm not sure how safe it is to be tooling around with whatever you're on, but having the tendency to isolate yourself and your style with "boundaries," as I see it, are pretty irrelevant to your medication regimen. Why did your pdoc choose this event to make an example out of your help-seeking behavior? Your doctor does not seem to respect your intelligence very much. Some pdocs are into psychological theory, others really aren't. Maybe you'd feel more comfortable sticking with your therapy (if it works) and finding a pdoc who is more interested in the scientific side of things. That way, you have two different perspectives and you might feel more comfortable. (Please note that this is just an opinion from someone totally unqualified to be giving advice about this sort of thing ... :)
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