Posted by karlak13 on August 20, 2004, at 21:34:19
In reply to Worst moments in therapy, posted by Dinah on August 15, 2004, at 0:11:42
I guess I could say I have had a couple of bad moments. My first was when I was newly married and a very young mother of baby. My husband and I were having marrital problems and I was having personal problems so My husband and I were seeing the t seperatly. One night my husband confided in the t that I was heavaly using cocaine and sleeping around. She said that was child neglegt/abuse. She was going to give him 24 hours to kick me out of the house and provide a safe place for the kids. Well needless to say before my husband had time to confront me because it was only a couple of hours latter she had called Social services on us. We both lost custody of our kids for awhile. My husband felt very very betrayed by the t because she didn't stick to her word and I felt betrayed by both of them. We both learned to only be so honest with therapists.
The second problem came 4 years ago. I had been severly depressed and was hallucinating, delusional, paranoid, hearing voices telling me to kill people, etc. I called a crisis line and talked to my dr who got me in to see a shrink right away. He admitted me into the hopital. A pdoc came and saw me for maybe 5 min. and came up with the diagnosis of depression phycosis. My husband and I were thinking paranoid schizophrenia. After a week I was discharged on an antidepressent and antiphycotic. I went back to the pdoc that saw me the first day of my chrisis. He said he agreed it was depression phycossis because I had been severly depressed for several years due to chronic pain and basically had a mental breakdown and a phycotic eposode. He said after a few years I should be able to quit taking meds and be fine. I got a second opinion who said paranoid schizophrenia. Well I decided to go with the more optomistic diagnosis. Wrong answer. I changed pdoc due to insurance change. 4 months ago he said I was no longer depressed, no longer phycotic things looked good lets try going off your meds. I did and was ok for 1 month. Then I started hearing voices, having delussions, hallucinations, and was afraid that my husband was trying to kill me. My husband told me to call my dr. He talked to him and they put me back on my meds. My hubby promised if I still felt he was trying to kill me after I had been on my meds a couple of weeks he would move out. So I complied. What a fool I feel like. My new pdoc has changed my official diagnosis now to paranoid schizophrenia. I will never go off my meds agian!
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