Posted by cybercafe on April 30, 2004, at 13:16:45
In reply to Re: Toronto_Canada, posted by T_R_D on April 30, 2004, at 10:01:26
> Man, so many scary stories. So you want to get into psychiatry? Good for you! I want to go back to school and get my nursing degree.
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> To both of you guys, sometimes I think you just have to go through the mill to find a good doc. I guess I've been lucky. I do hear stories about so many people not even being able to find a GP so why am I not surprised about a pdoc. I was almost referred to a guy from my GP but since the Lamictal seems to be kicking in I'm going to stay put for a while.
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> K.MY DOC->
i talked to my doc about referring him patients but him not returning their phone calls (i was a little upset) and his reply was that he was sick for a while and not able to do so but is answering/returning phone calls now... and wanted me to apologize to anyone who tried to get through but couldn't ....
if you want to send me a private email, pbad2001@yahoo.com, i can give you his contact details (put psychobabble or something in title so i know it's not spam)....
otherwise i would go with sunnybrook....... plus asking lots of questions from the knowledgable people on the board....
i just consider myself really lucky that my doc was smart enough to know that i needed parnate (2nd antidepressant he put me on) and that you can combine ritalin + parnate no problem ... otherwise i would not have such delusions of grandeur ........ and it was awesome he could see me on a weekly basis ...
but the illness thing was a real inconvenience, to say the leastODSP->
on a side note -- what is with people these days? i guess you have to establish rapport or something or else they do not care about you..... i never realized social skills were vital to getting better...i only wish i knew where the ODSP office was so i could have a little chat with them, i'm sure i could convince them of the benefits of helping me a little now so i could really help society out a little later ...... 8 months to have a claim processed is just ridiculous ...
i actually wrote them a letter saying that i really love people, but i am getting kind of desperate and if i get desperate enough, and because i'm really feeling that people don't care about one another when i talk to them, i'll probably end up in organized crime or something......
thanks a lot ODSP
i really want to help people, so it really comes as a shock to me when i meet person after person who doesn't care at all whether i live or die and it just makes me want to join a gang where i can make money breaking people's legs or something ... just to restore the karmic balance...
i think being "sensitive" is cool, except you have to be careful how you deal with people or you will be let down a lot (okay i can't complain people have been really good to me lately, just not the ones with the MONEY that really matter most right now)
MED SCHOOL ->
oh btw i talked to my doc a bit about med school and he was telling me, yeah, you can go for aversion therapy and that helps people get over squimishness ... since i have no money, i will probably try to teach myself psychology and then treat myself.... arrrrg ... unless i can find a free psychologist somewhere (i actually was referred to a few earlier but then got hypomanic and left the country)maybe now that i have no money it's a good time to steal some anatomy books from the U of T bookstore, i really wonder how easy it would be to plead diminished responsibility due to mental illness ... and it's not like i have any money for them to fine me ...
.... ahhh toronto is weird... i think most people don't care (are very isolated/cold/apathetic) until you get to know them, and then you find there are a lot of good people out there .... (probably because people are so isolated, when they do let you into their world it is so much more powerful a connection)
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