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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 595209" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Ask around. Usually you'll get as much info on the doctor's personality / treatment methods as you will his/her skill level or level of education. </p><p></p><p>Not all psychiatrists (psychiatrists) lean heavily toward medications. Most I've met don't......but then I always ask around and that is actually what I'm looking for. I prefer psychiatrists who sit and talk to their clients for the whole hour. Not one who relies on a therapist to do his job for him. Tdocs fill an important role......but I want a psychiatrist who is going to do what they're supposed to do. That is what I'm paying the big bucks for when I go to one. Know what I mean?? </p><p></p><p>The psychiatrist I went to after the accident to deal with the PTSD and anxiety it triggered wasn't one who leaned heavily toward medications. He talked with his clients much the same way a therapist would..........in my opinion better than most tdocs I've run into (especially in the last 10 yrs or so) and he gave you his undivided attention for that full hour no matter how many people were waiting in the waiting room. He used medications as the tool they were meant to be, not necessarily the "solution" to the problem. His goal was short term and he made you work toward that goal........and I do mean work. Like he gave me klonopin to help ease the anxiety so I could learn to deal with it.........I was on it a month. Too short a period of time in my opinion but by then he wanted me to put into action many of the things we'd talked about to help face the anxiety and deal with it without medications. I didn't need to go to him overly long either. Of course some dxes would require long term treatment/monitoring so that would apply in such a case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 595209, member: 84"] Ask around. Usually you'll get as much info on the doctor's personality / treatment methods as you will his/her skill level or level of education. Not all psychiatrists (psychiatrists) lean heavily toward medications. Most I've met don't......but then I always ask around and that is actually what I'm looking for. I prefer psychiatrists who sit and talk to their clients for the whole hour. Not one who relies on a therapist to do his job for him. Tdocs fill an important role......but I want a psychiatrist who is going to do what they're supposed to do. That is what I'm paying the big bucks for when I go to one. Know what I mean?? The psychiatrist I went to after the accident to deal with the PTSD and anxiety it triggered wasn't one who leaned heavily toward medications. He talked with his clients much the same way a therapist would..........in my opinion better than most tdocs I've run into (especially in the last 10 yrs or so) and he gave you his undivided attention for that full hour no matter how many people were waiting in the waiting room. He used medications as the tool they were meant to be, not necessarily the "solution" to the problem. His goal was short term and he made you work toward that goal........and I do mean work. Like he gave me klonopin to help ease the anxiety so I could learn to deal with it.........I was on it a month. Too short a period of time in my opinion but by then he wanted me to put into action many of the things we'd talked about to help face the anxiety and deal with it without medications. I didn't need to go to him overly long either. Of course some dxes would require long term treatment/monitoring so that would apply in such a case. [/QUOTE]
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