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Is this a bad, bad psychiatrist? Or should I just take the drugs and run?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 243878" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>If you're really convinced, and given your health insurance system, I woud be tempted to take the medications for now but keep looking for something a bit more scientific and thorough. </p><p></p><p>The first pediatrician we saw with difficult child 1 seemed great to begin with, although he diagnosed ADHD about as readily as the bloke you describe. He even came to difficult child 1'sschool to talk to them about ADHD and give the teachrs some understanding of what difficult child 1 was going through. </p><p>But ten eh went a bit strange and started focussing on me and my tendency to stay dead calm on the surface, raother then get labelled as emotional and hysteric. He started trying to upset me or make me angry, experimenting on me despite difficult child 1 being the patient, not me. He then began to blame me for difficult child 1's mental state, accusing me of being a "primary depressive" who had 'infected' her son. I took myself to see a psychiatrist at the time, purely to test this hypothesis - and I was cleared. The ratbag pediatrician then declared that I really MUST be mentally ill, if I was skilled enough to fool a psychiatrist!</p><p></p><p>When we moved on, the new doctor doubled difficult child 1's medications.</p><p></p><p>I put up with the first pediatrician's mucking around, because we needed a supply of medications for difficult child 1. I didn't have anyone else I knew about that we could see. I stayed with the first bloke until I found a second one. I had a list of names, I had a third bloke to go to if the second one didn't work out. We're now with that third pediatrician. The second blokewas great for a few years, then started to beave a bit more bizzarely than usual. He also couldn't take on any new patients and we needed to find someone for the other kids.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes you have to make less-than-satisfactory choices.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 243878, member: 1991"] If you're really convinced, and given your health insurance system, I woud be tempted to take the medications for now but keep looking for something a bit more scientific and thorough. The first pediatrician we saw with difficult child 1 seemed great to begin with, although he diagnosed ADHD about as readily as the bloke you describe. He even came to difficult child 1'sschool to talk to them about ADHD and give the teachrs some understanding of what difficult child 1 was going through. But ten eh went a bit strange and started focussing on me and my tendency to stay dead calm on the surface, raother then get labelled as emotional and hysteric. He started trying to upset me or make me angry, experimenting on me despite difficult child 1 being the patient, not me. He then began to blame me for difficult child 1's mental state, accusing me of being a "primary depressive" who had 'infected' her son. I took myself to see a psychiatrist at the time, purely to test this hypothesis - and I was cleared. The ratbag pediatrician then declared that I really MUST be mentally ill, if I was skilled enough to fool a psychiatrist! When we moved on, the new doctor doubled difficult child 1's medications. I put up with the first pediatrician's mucking around, because we needed a supply of medications for difficult child 1. I didn't have anyone else I knew about that we could see. I stayed with the first bloke until I found a second one. I had a list of names, I had a third bloke to go to if the second one didn't work out. We're now with that third pediatrician. The second blokewas great for a few years, then started to beave a bit more bizzarely than usual. He also couldn't take on any new patients and we needed to find someone for the other kids. Sometimes you have to make less-than-satisfactory choices. Marg [/QUOTE]
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