Anonymous said:
I have a psychologist and a psychiatrist who actually talk to each other and respect each other. This is somewhat rare, although that is what the protocol is supposed to be! Anyway, after 15 years of seeing less than satisfying or knowledgeable people, I think I finally got the right combination. Yeah me!!! I would also recommend to anyone who is searching for a shrink to turn to a group practice or clinic where shrinks are monitored and have paperwork to turn in to show they actually care and are on the ball. The ones who are in private practice just do whatever they want and it's usually not much. They're not accountable to anyone and don't have any direction or purpose. At a clinic, the shrinks are expected to have a direction that they are to set with the patient and this direction has to be documented. Keeps 'em honest and purposeful IMHO.
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hey..u have a pretty good blog!! have been following yr yogchick blog more often though!!!
Cheers!!
Satyam
!Thanks Satyam Arora! I don't get much traffic on this blog so it's nice to get the support.
Whenever I've gone to a therapist/social worker (someone who cannot prescribe medicine), I'm told I just need to process my feelings by talking about them endlessly until it's out of my system. Whenever I've gone to a psychiatrist (who can prescribe medicine) I'm told I have a personality disorder or some other psychiatric disorder that will require medicine. It's really that black and white between the two. And even though your therapist is supposed to talk to your psychiatrist about you to come up with the best plan, that never happens. This is because psychiatrists view themselves as "the real experts" who shouldn't lower themselves by consulting a lowly therapist. The whole industry just seems very fucked up and contradictory, if you ask me. I think both therapists and psychiatrists are full of shit, making money off of people's problems, and not really wanting you to get better. That's just my honest opinion y'all.
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