Saturday, June 22, 2013

A Much Needed Update June 22, 2013



Well here we (I) am. It has been over a week I think. Lots have changed in my mind but it has been difficult for me to process through words. That is why I haven’t been blogging. I got kicked out of another psychiatric practice because I didn’t like any of the therapists there. I am serious though they were incredulously idiotic. The first therapist I was referred to at this particular practice told me that in the year 1813 everyone walked from one place to another, and in year 1913 most people still walked from one place to another although a few road horses or took “buggies”. Then this intelligent bastard tells me that 100 years later we are over sophisticated in that we sent a rocket to the moon within the same decade as the creation of the “automobile”. He told me to write. To write everything in my head on paper and bring it in and if I didn’t have a journal of thoughts for him he wouldn’t talk to me. I had to give him the point that his little theory about the rocket thing (that he probably learned in his undergrad developmental psychology class and most likely tells everyone of his patients) I told him I have written many journals in the past and he said “no you haven’t, otherwise you wouldn’t be sitting in front of me”. Then I told him I have an online blog where I do exactly what he wanted me to do and he said throw my computer out the window. I think this individual must have been trained at the setting of movie “The Village” or something because he was the most abnormal person I have ever met. I thought fuck you as I walked out. I requested a different  therapist  right away at the “new patient scheduling desk” and this lovely receptionist referred me to a female therapist she thought would be polar opposite to this horse riding dumb fuck.

Different she was. I walk into her office for the first appointment and she just smiles and noticeably cocks her head to the side. She of course asks the array of questions and as I answer them I glance above her desk expecting to see her credentials but instead I see this class encasement with about 10 “strawberry short cake” figure dolls (like the type that was popular when I was 11 and she was 20). OMFG what kind of shit storm did I just walk into? I was completely dumb founded. I shared my complete history with this therapist because that is what I always do; I am always trustworthy of the providers I see (except the 1913 horse riding idiot). After I tell this therapist that I don’t really know my true diagnoses other than a history of an eating disorder, she says “yeah it is difficult to diagnose sometimes but I am in therapy too for ADHD and I take meds so I know how that goes”. What? She tells me she used to be on a stimulant but that kept her awake at night so now she takes Strattera and Pristiq and they seem to be doing well (big ass smile). I am sorry, she was a nice person I just don’t want a therapist who tells me her own personal mental health issues let alone even has them. So I go and I tell them I want another therapist and in fact I want another psychiatrist. Well they are going to have to get permission from the last psychiatrist I was seeing there first. Well turns out no more therapists could see me there, and there was 1 out of the 9 psychiatrists at the practice that was willing to see me. The prim little bitch who handed all this information out to me on the phone was more than unprofessional, so me having the “history I do” called this receptionist back and left a nice little message for her and her practice saying they can all kiss my ass. That’s the end. I have actually gone back to a psychiatrist I had about 3 years ago. She is great.

Well my friends my writing is out of shape. I am tired. I hope that is enough for now. I will try to write tomorrow too. J  

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