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Help please..do I need a neuropsychiatrist or just psychiatrist??
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<blockquote data-quote="BeyondWeary" data-source="post: 364421" data-attributes="member: 8825"><p>It has been my experience that if your difficult child is a very straightforward <strong>easy-to-diagnose</strong> case of a major illness supported by Bigpharma, then a psychiatrist can prescribe pills for it. ON THE OTHER HAND, if your difficult child doesn't fit neatly into a category like depression, ADD, etc, and the medication for it doesn't help, THEN you need a neuropsychologist. These folks have studied the neurological disfunctions, abnormalities, et al to the nth degree and they have many tests to examine the behavior/learning/moving/ problems from several angles. The psychiatrists nowdays are very unimpressive to me - we have been to 4 of them - they just seem to keep guessing as they prescribe pills. I think I could do a better job. Just put the pills in dispensers like Jelly Beans at Target with some notes like what they are for, what the side effects are, and I could determine what the difficult child needs instead of all the useless appointments, the repeated questions, the repeated answers, the frustration, etc. etc. etc. HA! HA!<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BeyondWeary, post: 364421, member: 8825"] It has been my experience that if your difficult child is a very straightforward [B]easy-to-diagnose[/B] case of a major illness supported by Bigpharma, then a psychiatrist can prescribe pills for it. ON THE OTHER HAND, if your difficult child doesn't fit neatly into a category like depression, ADD, etc, and the medication for it doesn't help, THEN you need a neuropsychologist. These folks have studied the neurological disfunctions, abnormalities, et al to the nth degree and they have many tests to examine the behavior/learning/moving/ problems from several angles. The psychiatrists nowdays are very unimpressive to me - we have been to 4 of them - they just seem to keep guessing as they prescribe pills. I think I could do a better job. Just put the pills in dispensers like Jelly Beans at Target with some notes like what they are for, what the side effects are, and I could determine what the difficult child needs instead of all the useless appointments, the repeated questions, the repeated answers, the frustration, etc. etc. etc. HA! HA!:raspberry-tounge: [/QUOTE]
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