Posted by trouble on March 17, 2002, at 2:41:44
In reply to Re: How do you confront a bad psychiatrist?, posted by spiroll on March 16, 2002, at 21:35:08
Hey Lisa,
Let me say upfront that I'm the kind of person who believes in sticking it out, that's just my personal bias. I had to respond to you tho, b/c
it sounds like we're seeing the same psychiatrist. He's a vain, intolerant, flamboyant, arrogant, irritable and swaggering megalomaniac, a sharkskin Chulo, w/ the harshest mouth I've yet to hear this side of the penal colony. It's almost a carichature, Doctor Gangster, he's quick and he's mean and he revels in it, no apologies or holding others responsible for causing his moods. Pshaw, as if any mere mortal could.But out of 24 doctors he's the most therapeutic male I've had. He is also the only pdoc I ever had who outright threatened to fire me. I've been fired by half his predecessors, but they never called it that, they lied and said they were leaving town or I was untreatable. But that first year, no, it was awful, I'd come home and cry, feeling totally victimized, insulted, devalued, objectified, belittled, picked on, uncared for and, well, you get the drift. I stayed w/him on the advice of three therapists, all of whom warned me not to take his jerkhood personally, he gets better the longer you know him they said, and that helped. I'm glad I stuck it out, b/c along w/the psychopharm he does good therapy, I've seen him go bam bam thru 10 schools of technique in 30 minutes time, one minute it's cognition, then Freudian, then he'll do a Gestalt technique, and something I recognize Carl Rogers said, OR Neitzsche, Hemingway, Bridgette Bardot, whatever he deems appropriate at the time, and any therapist who has that preponderance of knowledge at hand is IMO worth the hammer-blows, which are mutual now, 'cause I'm not gonna lay down for that shit anymore and he can't blame me for that, himself having been my shining example.]
I ended up getting what I need. Everyone's different, whatever ya need you need, perhaps this pdoc's helping you discover more about that, by doing so much of what you don't. Or maybe he'll offer you a chance to embrace your own annoyingly vast and complex humanity. Someone's got to, I mean if not our psychiatrists then who gets to take a shot at that? I need this kind of intense advocacy, I want to see him fight for my spirit like it meant something. I haven't met many nice people who have that kind of passion.
But as mentioned, I enjoy the process of hammering it out, only you can decide what feels best for you.
take care,
trouble
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