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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 35307" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I remember when I was just beginning to have big problems with what later turned out to be PTSD, I rang a counselling line to try to find out what was happening to me. I was desperate; it was the middle of the night and I was getting flashbacks and bursting into floods of tears. One counselling line I rang told me they couldn't talk to me; they had someone on the other line who was desperate. She didn't even take my number and offer to call back, but hung up on me before I'd even had a chance to say anything more than "hello".</p><p></p><p>I've had other doctors tell me I'm clearly not depressed because I'm wearing bright colours and make-up (as you said - we try to mask it) and another doctor (difficult child 1's first pediatrician) who INSISTED that I was suffering from clinical depression when I said I didn't feel depressed; he kept telling me that my continued denial was an indication of just how mentally ill I was. When I told him I'd seen a psychiatrist who said I wasn't currently suffering form depression, he said (among other derogatory things about that psychiatrist) that I was clearly very sick because I must have gone to a lot of trouble to fool the psychiatrist. He then said my failure to get angry with him or show any emotion, was another indication.</p><p>And there I had been, desperately biting my tongue so as not to seem like an unstable harpie. I should have let my feelings out and screamed at him instead... but then he would probably have called for the men in white coats.</p><p></p><p>There are some very sick people in this world, and some of them become doctors. As I keep saying, that's why they call it "practising" medicine. And if they keep up practising, who knows? They may eventually get the hang of it!</p><p></p><p>But as I said earlier, there are good ones and bad ones, no matter which specialty you talk about.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 35307, member: 1991"] I remember when I was just beginning to have big problems with what later turned out to be PTSD, I rang a counselling line to try to find out what was happening to me. I was desperate; it was the middle of the night and I was getting flashbacks and bursting into floods of tears. One counselling line I rang told me they couldn't talk to me; they had someone on the other line who was desperate. She didn't even take my number and offer to call back, but hung up on me before I'd even had a chance to say anything more than "hello". I've had other doctors tell me I'm clearly not depressed because I'm wearing bright colours and make-up (as you said - we try to mask it) and another doctor (difficult child 1's first pediatrician) who INSISTED that I was suffering from clinical depression when I said I didn't feel depressed; he kept telling me that my continued denial was an indication of just how mentally ill I was. When I told him I'd seen a psychiatrist who said I wasn't currently suffering form depression, he said (among other derogatory things about that psychiatrist) that I was clearly very sick because I must have gone to a lot of trouble to fool the psychiatrist. He then said my failure to get angry with him or show any emotion, was another indication. And there I had been, desperately biting my tongue so as not to seem like an unstable harpie. I should have let my feelings out and screamed at him instead... but then he would probably have called for the men in white coats. There are some very sick people in this world, and some of them become doctors. As I keep saying, that's why they call it "practising" medicine. And if they keep up practising, who knows? They may eventually get the hang of it! But as I said earlier, there are good ones and bad ones, no matter which specialty you talk about. Marg [/QUOTE]
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