{"id":5653,"date":"2007-02-24T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/the-truth-about-psychiatrists\/"},"modified":"2007-02-24T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T01:24:00","slug":"the-truth-about-psychiatrists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/the-truth-about-psychiatrists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Psychiatrists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Right now I am at that seminar I told you I was going<br \/>to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to what happen to me.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was out walking around the hotel and bumped<br \/>into someone. I told him about my sites online and how<br \/>things were going well.<\/p>\n<p>I then told him about the situation with my mom, how she<br \/>had a really bad episode years ago and is doing great.<\/p>\n<p>Then I mentioned how great her doctor was. And that&#8217;s when<br \/>he kind of freaked out.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Oh those &#8216;shrinks&#8217; they suck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was caught off guard. First I HATE, HATE the word shrink.<br \/>You&#8217;re probably going to think that I am overly dramatically<br \/>but I can&#8217;t stand that word. It&#8217;s negative, it denigrates<br \/>a psychiatrist. It suggests the profession is not serious.<br \/>On and on.<\/p>\n<p>Then I was thinking, &#8220;what do you mean they suck?&#8221;<br \/>So I asked why he would say such terrible things. He told me<br \/>a story how someone in his family went to one and they did<br \/>nothing at all, except, and I quote &#8220;Charge a lot of money<br \/>per hour for nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked some questions in a nice way and found that most likely,<br \/>he like so many other people I have spoken to, created his own<br \/>problems.<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean? Well, his loved one was taken to the doctor. They<br \/>wanted instant results. They (the family) didn&#8217;t want to be<br \/>involved with the loved one&#8217;s care. He didn&#8217;t feel he had<br \/>to be involved and neither did anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t want the loved one to have take medication??<br \/>They didn&#8217;t want to pay a lot of money and thought that<br \/>more than $30 a hour was too much.<br \/>They didn&#8217;t want to drive a long way to the doctor?<br \/>They wanted the doctor to call and check in on them?<br \/>They believe that mental illness may not be &#8220;real.&#8221;<br \/>I heard this kind of stuff and was amazed. Then I cut him<br \/>off and said, &#8220;Frankly sir, you did everything wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You are blaming the doctor when you set him up to fail in<br \/>my opinion.<br \/>I told him all the things he could have done based on what I<br \/>teach in my course at:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is why I have a TON of information on finding a doctor,<br \/>picking them AND working with the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Ummm, I guess you are right when I think about it that<br \/>way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I knew he felt dumb, which he should.<br \/>Then I said, $30 for a session?? I said, it&#8217;s a serious illness,<br \/>these doctors have gone to school. Do you expect a traditional<br \/>doctor to charge $30 for a visit? What the heck? $30 a visit?<br \/>You can make $30 working in a manual labor job that&#8217;s mindless.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think a doctor should get $30 a visit when people make<br \/>$30 for doing work you don&#8217;t even have to think about??<br \/>I was like come on. Then I told him how he should NOT call them<br \/>&#8220;shrinks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I then said, and I quote, &#8220;In my opinion Sir, and I want<br \/>to say this in the most respectful way, but I fell compelled<br \/>to say it, your mindset along with your family&#8217;s is terrible when<br \/>it comes to mental illness and that unfortunately led to your loved one&#8217;s lack of progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I had to go.<\/p>\n<p>He actually thanked me for helping him get his head out of his<br \/>butt.<\/p>\n<p>But boy, was I amazed with this conversation.<br \/>But he&#8217;s not the only one, there are so many other people that<br \/>think these same types of things.<br \/>I hear stuff like this all the time.<\/p>\n<p>But bottom line is, I have found that most psychiatrists are<br \/>good people that want to help someone with bipolar disorder. They<br \/>really care. But the situation is usually stacked against them.<br \/>People have unrealistic expectations of how fast results will occur<br \/>People want something for nothing&#8230;they want f.r.e.e treatment almost<br \/>People don&#8217;t want to be involved with loved one&#8217;s care. They want to<br \/>&#8220;dump&#8221; their loved one on the doctor and let them take care of it.<\/p>\n<p>My dad, actually admitted to me, that he did this for years.<br \/>I could go on and on, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I have to run and go catch some breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day.<\/p>\n<p>Your Friend,<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Right now I am at that seminar I told you I was going<br \/>to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to what happen to me.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was out walking around the hotel and bumped<br \/>into someone. 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