arghh! doctors and psychiatrists

[dragonfly]

Sorry for ranting

I'm just so fed up with gp's and psychiatrists. All they ever seem to do is make stuff worse for me. It's like they know that I struggle to trust people enough to open up to them, and they know i freak out when I feel like i'm being controlled, but they still do stuff that they decide "is in my best interest" whether i like it or not.

Its like my gp was asking me last week about whether or not i found seeing a psychiatrist helpful. And I answered pretty much honestly because i thought i could trust her. But then i find out yesterday at my psych appointment that my gp had pretty much passed on everything i said, to the psychiatrist. Its like i think my psychiatrist is really useless, but i don't want her to know that's what i think. And i just really hate it when people talk about me behind my back.

And i got more lectures about what i should and shouldn't do from my psych yesterday. But its like i'm not stupid, i know what i should actually do to look after my body, i don't need people telling me what to do. Its my body i can do what the f**k i want to it.

Just so fed up of doctors deciding what treatments i need without caring what i think about treatment, or even bothering telling me sometimes. Like last time i was in hospital, they wanted to keep me in for observation, and i was like trying to sleep so had my eyes closed, and then some nurse was trying to put me on some drip, even though the last thing i'd been told was that i wasn't going to be given anything.

Its like they don't even care that i might actually want some sort of control over what they're doing to my body. And all i can think is that the only way i can stop them controlling my body is to just refuse to consent to all medical treatments they seem to think necessary.

sorry again, for ranting:(

[fwyzing]

doctors suck!

your gp is a real ass. isn't there like some confidentiality law about that?
(unless it's a "treatment team" which suck harder)

but you'll get through it...
how old are you?

either way maybe you should look into finding a different psycho doctor.

cuz I did when i hated my last 3 (1 was just cuz I was the difficult one, lol) but now i sorta like my new one.

there are bad doctors out there. look around, see if maybe some other doctors wouldn't give you so much grief and you might feel better :)

having doctors care would still suck, but tell them not to pass on your health history charts. burn them if you must :)

(and don't tell your psych the new dr's name. then they'll just talk. trust me.)

i hope i helped or just calmed you down...

and no need for rantage apologies... that's what we're here for.

much love, babe :)

[dragonfly]

I thought there was a confidentiality law, but i'm assuming that it only covers doctors telling people who aren't within the nhs (live in UK). And i can only afford to use the nhs so don't really have much choice about psychs. Last time i refused to go see the psych they referred to me, they just decided that I was too un-cooperative for them (I'm difficult too!)

But I think i'm calmer now. I was kinda feeling bad as well because I was pretty rude after pych gave me grief yesterday. Usually I just try and ignore it without responding, but yeah...

A few weeks till my next appointments, i'm sure i'll be fine.

thanks fwyzing

[Dr. Lance Hardwood]

And i got more lectures about what i should and shouldn't do from my psych yesterday. But its like i'm not stupid, i know what i should actually do to look after my body, i don't need people telling me what to do. Its my body i can do what the f**k i want to it.

I'm a doctor, and I often find that my patients know much better than me. I got my medicine degree from the Community College of Tijuana, and very few doctors have ever been to university or even secondary school. Most practice medicine as a hobby and don't know what's best for the human body, so it's reasonable to attempt to ignore them.


Just so fed up of doctors deciding what treatments i need without caring what i think about treatment, or even bothering telling me sometimes. Like last time i was in hospital, they wanted to keep me in for observation, and i was like trying to sleep so had my eyes closed, and then some nurse was trying to put me on some drip, even though the last thing i'd been told was that i wasn't going to be given anything.

Its like they don't even care that i might actually want some sort of control over what they're doing to my body. And all i can think is that the only way i can stop them controlling my body is to just refuse to consent to all medical treatments they seem to think necessary.

sorry again, for ranting:(

When doctors say "This treatment is necessary, or you will suffer greatly and may die," what they mean to say is that you are like a teacher to them. Being corrected by teenagers is the best thing that can possibly happen in a doctor's career; they are always learning, after all, just like the rest of you. Five years of medical school seems wasted when patients just do what they're told.

[dragonfly]

If you really were a doctor then i'd imagine that u'd have better things to do than making sarcastic comments on this site. Pretty pathetic way to spend your time. And for the record i'm in my twenties not a teenager.

And when it comes to doctors (or anyone else for that matter) I would rather die than not have control of my body, so i couldn't care less what they or you think about what i'm doing to myself.