I know you're reading this. I know you come back. I have a feeling some of you have even bookmarked this site. I know, for some of you, you've been in or are in therapy. And somebody out there has to have a story to tell. I'm not asking for an opus -- just trying to avoid having to pull a quote from that Adam Phillips article yet again (it gets old). So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE will somebody send in a story (under 500 words) about their feelings/memories of The Shrink Experience. You can post it anonymously in today's comment section. You can even rant about how you suspect I'm antipsychology or am a Thetan Level 7 in the Church of Scientology. Thanks.
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OK, if you insist...
(Seems fair, since I do have this site bookmarked.)
Years ago, I saw a psychiatrist who prescribed Paxil to me. I was severely depressed at the time, and the Paxil didn't do much of anything for me. The doctor diagnosed me as having Borderline Personality Disorder, his explanation for why the Paxil didn't work. Then he raised the Paxil. Lo and behold! Depression gone -- and he told me he removed the BPD from my diagnosis, because he could see he'd been wrong.
I've thought about that since then. Isn't it lovely, for the psychiatrists, that if they can't find an effective drug treatment for depression, it must be because of a personality disorder? And, with the new research saying that PDs improve with age and drug treatment, they never have to say they were wrong -- only that age and drug treatment have improved the patient's condition. Kinda makes you wish you'd gone to medical school, doesn't it? You'd never have to rethink your diagnosis, and if your treatment plan fails, it's the patient's fault anyway.
Very nice site. I know many out there have issues with therapy and therapists. I tell stories on my blog about this very thing in my 'hospital memories' category.
Amazing how all too often we're left at the wayside. :(
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