Posted by ChicagoKat on November 10, 2012, at 19:52:18
In reply to Re: Idea 4 Mental Health Prof. Training, posted by emmanuel98 on November 10, 2012, at 19:22:22
> I don't know why people make such negative comments about psychiatrists on this board. Both he and almost all the others I've seen while hospitalized (i've been hospitalized four or five times) have been great, doing the very best they can given the limits of psych meds.
You know, I have to say more about this. I cannot stress enough that I love my pdoc; he sounds a lot like yours, incredibly experienced, incredibly knowledgeable, and incredibly caring and empathetic. And my pdocs in the past have for the most part been great too, nowhere near as great as my current one, but certainly very competent. And, like you emmanuel, I've been hospitalized several times, again meeting nothing but great pdocs. If anything, I've had a few bad experiences with therapists, but I still think that in excess of 95 per cent of those in the mental health profession do care a great deal. I'm sorry you couldn't see my post for the tongue in cheek thing it was. It also might have been nice to have a response and maybe even some support in response to my other post about Nardil withdrawal.
I regret my post about mental health training a great deal now. I was far from myself at the time. But I just wish you could understand that it really was a way for me to try to make light of and laugh at the hell I was experiencing, and that it really, truly, was a slam of MAOI withdrawal, not of mental health professionals, but I admit I worded it very poorly.
Kat
- What doesn't kill you makes you stranger
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