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I saw my new therapist today
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 190786" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I understand your frustration. I also see where Loth is going. A patient may say that they have no history of drug or alcohol abuse, but in fact there may be records as to it available that the doctor can't access without a release.</p><p></p><p>The other thing that rings true about what both you and Loth said is the thing about depression and pain. For a long time I answered "no" about depression, even though I had suffered from severe depressions in my life. The truth was that they were "situational depressions" and that they were in the past. If they start in with me about depression causing pain, I am lucky enough to be able to refer them to studies that show that 40&#37; of patients with my MD suffer pain daily. I also refer them back to the new patient form that has "Depression" checked with "situational in the past" written next to it.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I hate those commercials about the new medication that is for depression and pain. You know the ones, "Depression hurts..." I am very angry that they have developed and are marketing that medication. It belittles women in particular, and puts our very real physical ailments back into our heads when it took me 20 years to get physicians out of my head and on to my physical well-being.</p><p></p><p>But, let me ask this. If it were a woman therapist, would you have been as angry?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 190786, member: 99"] I understand your frustration. I also see where Loth is going. A patient may say that they have no history of drug or alcohol abuse, but in fact there may be records as to it available that the doctor can't access without a release. The other thing that rings true about what both you and Loth said is the thing about depression and pain. For a long time I answered "no" about depression, even though I had suffered from severe depressions in my life. The truth was that they were "situational depressions" and that they were in the past. If they start in with me about depression causing pain, I am lucky enough to be able to refer them to studies that show that 40% of patients with my MD suffer pain daily. I also refer them back to the new patient form that has "Depression" checked with "situational in the past" written next to it. Personally, I hate those commercials about the new medication that is for depression and pain. You know the ones, "Depression hurts..." I am very angry that they have developed and are marketing that medication. It belittles women in particular, and puts our very real physical ailments back into our heads when it took me 20 years to get physicians out of my head and on to my physical well-being. But, let me ask this. If it were a woman therapist, would you have been as angry? [/QUOTE]
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