I know these people are there to help, but has anyone had negative experiences in which the feel they were set back further than when they went in for help?
2007-10-21 03:05:43 · 6 answers · asked by rain4him *Stranger In Most Towns 4 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Yes, though most therapists/doctors I've run into over the years have been quite nice and helpful.
About 10 years back, something totally overwhelming hit me hard. I went into a psych ER. The psychiatrist I saw told me that I would 'burn in hell'. This, obviously did not help my situation, but rather magnified it. BTW, I was responsible for getting the jerk fired.
I think sometimes that therapists get burn-out from listening to all the problems the world has to offer.
2007-10-21 03:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have a friend who was having severe depression in the early 1980s, she had a terrible experience with an incompetent psychiatrist.
He was still using the psychoanalysis approach (which was largely discarded in the 1970s). He put her on valium and kept talking to her and her husband about "repressed sexual urges." She got so bad she was locked up in the mental hospital and had several courses of shock treatment.
Later, she got another doctor who diagnosed her with Bipolar Disorder and put her on Lithium; she responded well to the treatment and has done pretty well ever since.
2007-10-21 03:19:11 · answer #2 · answered by majnun99 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Yeah, I do. I went to a "distinguished" psychiatrist for treatment of depression. He despised me for being gay and German speaking, and thought I was an anti-Semite. That ended our professional relationship until I worked in a mental health agency a whole lifetime later and there he was.
He proceeded to pigeon hole me as a depressed anti-Semite, based on his faulty and biased perceptions. As I got to know him and his relationship with other patients, I discovered that those that he personally liked received very good treatment and those he didn't like received aloof, indifferent treatment.
Not an overly pleasant experience regardless of what side of the couch I was on. I've since learned that many mental healthy professionals are best kept at a distance, as their own health can be remarkably questionable, or worse still, their own sence of groaning self-importance is directly proportionate to their diplomas promiently displayed on their walls.
2007-10-21 03:20:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yea, ive had a sever depression for the past few years, and ive been on medication for about 1 year. nothing is working, it starts to but stops. the psychiatrist keeps changing the dose slightly, but i think i should get something that works when i need it to instead of all the time.
2007-10-21 03:17:47 · answer #4 · answered by pappydethkon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I was seeing one and she was a bitty. She never would listen--I could tell it. Then she would prescribe me medicine and I would ask her why this particular type and she would say that I seemed manicky. I would ask her why and she said I talked alot and fast. I told her the reason was b/c I only had ten minutes with her and I wanted to get it all in. She told me not too get all educated with her. ooooooooooooo. I never went back after that visit.
2007-10-21 03:17:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No -- I have nothing but good things to say about my psychiatrist.
2007-10-21 03:20:36 · answer #6 · answered by Skepticat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋