Are You Getting the Right type of Care? or Just Meds?

[Mental As Anything]

I am wondering this because when I was psychotic I was only getting medicated more and more and more. No therapy; no other assistance into society - totally excluded and raising children it's not easy doing.

Wonder how many think are we just guinea pigs for experiementation when it comes to mental health? most of the professionals I saw looked scarier than I did; they couldn't offer me anything and I think I could have made them think I was a mass murderer just because they were sitting there looking and waiting for something I said; when I was too doped to say anything - felt like I was the fish in the pond being stared at.

[Ellen Adams]

I got lucky. When I couldn't stop crying, I looked for a therapist first, then went to the doctor. (He insisted I make sure it wasn't something physical that was making me feel the way I did.)

We've hung in there with each other for four years now, even when I moved away from CA, he still talks with me by phone. But the doctors here... that's another story entirely. You make (and pay for ) a 30 minute appointment, and in less than 10 you're out the door with prescriptions. I've taken to having my therapist fill out all my insurance paperwork, because the doctor doesn't know me from Adam. He has no clue what my life is like, or how I'm really doing, because he never talks to me.

So it is a little of both, I guess. I get great treatment from Bernie, and absolutely nothing but medications from the doctor.