Posted by dawnfawn on November 26, 2004, at 9:48:29
In reply to Depression ,Medication,Doctors and Drug Companies » linkadge, posted by iris2 on November 23, 2004, at 10:31:46
I don't know if any of you have seen any of my other listings. I am getting discouraged with my new forte into the world of therapy. This medication problem is only one of my gripes. In the old days talk therapy seemed to work for me. Lately, I have suffered an onset of middleage malaise and a worsening of anxiety. I have started to become obessesed with my health and have developed full blown hypochondria. In my quest to help myself I have been entering back into therapy. I first saw a man who may have been alright in his prime but was quite inappropriate by the time I got to him. His first remark after an hour session when he didn't know me was to tell me that he thought Lexapro would help me. Mind you lexapro samples were strewn all over his office. I know that doctors get all sorts of freebies from the drug companies. To make a long story short I never took an RX from him as I didn't trust him or his judgement. I then went on to CBT which is not supposed to utilize drugs at all. After seven sessions when it looked like action was stagnating my therapist (at my suggestion, not hers) gave me the name of psychopharmacology doctors for eval. You can imagine my surprise when I looked these people up on the web and found that two of them are on the board of a pharmacuetical (sp) house. The other one seems to write articles for newspapers. I am very disgruntled by all this. any comments
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