psychiatric therapy

[Chaco Dundee]

It is beond my understanding of what we consider mental health if a psychiatrist is entitled to prescribe harmful medication to clients when he or she is drugged up on the same meds.is the title really a free run to forward a prognosis which only this particullar psychiatrist arrives at as opposed to the next psychiatrist in line who one might want to see for a difference of appinion.then you would or should wonder which kind of drugs he might be on.it's possible that you are sane.that's one out of three.

[Sheldon Cooper]

1. Yes.

[Deep13]

2. What?

[pinboy3niner]

3. That's not a What?

THIS is a What?:

[Chaco Dundee]

4. any time

Go there some time and you will know w.t.f.

[Deep13]

5. Could you be a little more vague, please? Go where sometime?

What in the name of hell are you talking about?

[nolabear]

6. I think I understand what you mean. But you have to be a good consumer and find someone you trust.

Anyone in any profession can be incompetent. And yes, a psychiatrist might, say, take an antidepressant. So might a GP take blood pressure meds and prescribe them as well. You can't deny someone a credential because they take a medication, but you can have standards and regulations that try to make sure they act responsibly. And I believe most do, as in all professions. But the rest is up to you. If you don't agree with a diagnosis you have every right to challenge it or get another opinion. It's the healthy thing to do. Then you have to choose whether to trust.

[Chaco Dundee]

7. thank you

You are right,though I see what is done to innocent kids under the cloak of the title "psychiatrist" and "adult" and it makes me cringe.

[LeftyMom]

8. Mainly because half the people I was with believed it at the time.

[uppityperson]

11. doing community service

[RobinA]

9. Ya Might Want

to get those meds checked yourself.

[Chaco Dundee]

10. sure

I'd love to check their meds,thince I am not on any.

[BigL]

12. Patients

Do not have to take medications if they choose not to. In fact, noncompliance is actually pretty high in psychiatric cases, especially psychotic cases, considering the nasty side-effects of anti-psychotic medications as well as the difficulty in treating negative symptoms like depression.
I am of the opinion that most physicians are not incompetent and most, if not all, would at least ask the patient the medications they are on prior to the first appointment.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. I blame Xenu.

[Orrex]

14. Xenu gets a bad rap

But he helped me out with bus fare once when I was stranded in Buffalo. Great guy!

[Jamastiene]

15. Holy run-on sentence, Batman!

exactly are you trying to say?

[liberal_at_heart]

16. being an informed and self advocating patient is important.

My husband has been helped a lot by pyschiatric medicine. It helped pull him out of a deep, deep depression and with anger issues he was having.

[CreekDog]

17. Should God be allowed to create a rock so heavy that he can't lift it himself

[Pretzel_Warrior]

18. All your base are belong to us

[Socal31]

19. ....

I accidentally the whole thing.

[BainsBane]

20. If your doctor is on high blood pressure medicine

Does that mean s/he shouldn't prescribe you high blood pressure medicine? Why should mental health care be any different?