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Default Oct 13, 2019 at 05:19 PM
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So Iīve to my pdoc that " the best treatment for me is no treatment " that IS the treatment. Iīve been given another appoitment in six months where he says that istīs the last one.

I really donīt need him between appointments or stuff like that I just feel safe knowing that I have a pdoc. ( He has a year long waitinglist, so I canīt just call him if I need an appointment afterwards )

Has anyone else felt that way ? Being safe and content and not needing to see your T or Pdoc but not wanting to terminate either ?

I had a really traumatic unethical pdoc before this one, so I have felt so safe with this on for being proffessionel towards me, that it. in itself has been healing for me. Not even what we talked about during sessions.
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Default Oct 13, 2019 at 05:22 PM
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Yes, but I ended up never needing to go back so it was not really an issue. You say you have an appointment in 6 months, so perhaps by then you'll feel more secure in severing official ties. If not, my guess is that there will be a legitimate reason for having to continue that you can discuss with him then.
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Yes I had this experience. I had a pdoc I picked up in the process of attending a partial hospital program. I was on medication for a year or so thereafter & I continued to see him throughout that time. (I did not see a therapist.)

There came a point, though, where I decided to go off of the medication & so I no longer needed to see my pdoc. Since he was my only connection to the mental health services system, however, I was loathe to stop seeing him altogether. So I continued to see him twice a year just to keep my foot in the door, so to speak.

I continued seeing my pdoc twice a year for a couple of years I suppose. (Memory fails me.) In the end, though, I decided it was pointless to keep going back if I wasn't going to consider going back on psych med's (which I wasn't.) So I finally just stopped scheduling appointments. And that was that.

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Default Oct 13, 2019 at 10:44 PM
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I had a pdoc, as a backup in lieu of a real doc , until he tried to kill me .

You might know i am not the healthiest specimen ,I was traveling 16 hour days to see my neurologist ,dentist,and palliative care doc , so instead of adding another long trip I saw this clown for insomnia ,even though it wasn't insomnia it's sleep disorders ,I could go to this guy locally, and I had an unrealistic fear of becoming a drug addict ( my wife was a pain patient they turned into a drug addict ,I was the only one with any intrest in trying to save her,an army of one , doesn't work) so the guy specialty was addictionology when in between appointments with city doc I could follow with him and get my sleeping pills , perfect . In 2016 I had a cardiac arrest, coma, brain injury and survived a killer trifecta .

When I got out of the hospital and saw this guy again ,he decided to cut me off cold ,no taper no nothing , I went along with it at first , however when you have spent 50 years dependent on medication for any sleep , you start to unravel , mentally, twice in a 3 month period I was baker acted for a week or more because I couldn't sleep and was becoming very erratic ,if you have an existing disability and someone alleges you can't care for yourself you don't pass go or collect 200 dollars your being hospitalized . So on my second trip ,I gave up begging and pleading with this guy to get a consult from someone who is more knowledgeable, he flatly refused ,so in the psych unit I started rocking the phone lines looking for an actual full fledged sleep pathologist( there are only 6000 licensed in the entire us ,many don't see patients ,are retired, not practicing or devoted to research ) so i hit many dead ends , i finnaly find one practicing and tried to get an appointment and there first available was 1 1/2 years away , his secretary asked would that work ? I said no ,she asked why ? , i said i will be dead , she ask why? ,so i explain my diagnoses my disability and the complete lack of care i was in , so she moves heaven and earth makes chop meat out of the doctors schedule and gets me an appointment in 2 weeks , so the hospital kept me until the night before my appointment , in two weeks in the hospital they documented seeing me sleep for about 2 minutes total in what are called "micro sleeps" regardless of what your doing you fall asleep for a couple of seconds and wake up ,it's kinda like self induced narcolepsy .it's handy I am strapped into a power wheelchair falling hurts .

Your logic and reasoning are gone your a miserable human being , and you become outrageously suicidal ,it a permanent rest, but its rest none the less , leave me alone for 5 minutes and that's all I would need ( I was a Hazardous Materials Firefighter expert and and an electrical engineer) , they found out there "safe space" wasnt so safe after all to an educated person, i showed them a hundred ways to be lethal that they never thought of . So when I am being discharged they wanted to make a follow up with Dr. Ignorance trying to kill me ,i said no he's fired ,and I was filing suit for malpractice, since this guy was the medical director ,I couldn't see anybody on his staff ,so my follow up and discharge instructions where blank .

I get to this new doctor he comes in sits down and asks why in God's name are you here ? I am a dark humored person from years on the job but I don't want to scare him off, so I say I have aņ appointment , he says I know , your unconventional appointment making is unique, what did you say to my secretary ,I have never in 10 years seen her cry , I said sign into my case ,I just told her the truth as my medical records will say everything i did , he said you shouldn't be here or have had to even come , give me the number of this idiot , I want him to understand he almost killed you ,I told him ,I doubt he will talk to you ,he doesn't want to know how wrong he is or have a consult , I terminated him yesterday , oh well I guess your mine now. So I see him 2 X a year unless I need to switch meds due to tolerance ,i am a high function quadriplegic so traveling is hard on me and shouldn't be done if it can be avoided ,in the last 5 years we have made a great relationship ,I call him doc and he calls me doc , we debate who the real expert is ,he says I have have book knowledge that you have lived ,so when he wants to know something about how doctors found out something about sleep, how did we find out X,Y,Z what made us go down such and such road ? He calls me and we talk about it , because I remeber the history of things I tried and things that failed , and the dead ends we tried until we found a path forward .

Long before I fired I this psych he and my palliative care doctor had arrived at the same conclusion ,I don't have an addictive bone in my body ,yes I had been through hells half acre with my wife ,but i was not her .

Ultimately the psychiatrist who grew up here and attended medical school here , has become unwelcome here due to what he did to me , everybody new he really screwed the pooch on my case ,so he moved away and started a new practice , however he can't practice solo ,he needs a supervisory physician to check his work, he took a medical director position 6 months out of school , nearly killed a patient, and is paying for it with a ruined career, all he had to do was ask another doctor is my treatment plan right? The answer was no and always will be .

However it's partially my fault for not using a more experienced doctor , he inherited me when the doctor I saw with 35 years experience retired ,I should have walked away when I found out the guy had been a doctor a whole 6 months , lesson learned !

There is a shortage in mental health care nationwide ,so if you do leave ,it's hard to rengage,i would really suggest you hang on as a twice a year appointment "just in case" ,and see how it goes ( only you can decide when "your strong enough to fly the nest " there is no shame in keeping some support around if you need it. Of course your insurance will require a diagnosis so the doctor can be paid, mood disorder not otherwise specified ,not differentiated is catch all ,that can work in your favor ,but let the doctor figure the justification out , millions of people have sub clinical depression, anxiety, etc etc..
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Default Oct 14, 2019 at 07:42 AM
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Yes, I keep my Pdoc around because just having her there keeps me feeling more stable and secure. I am on a low dose anxiety med as needed that could be prescribed by my family doc... but Pdoc has been with me a long time and I love her!!! We schedule as needed and she has totally validated the need to stay on her schedule. Typically I try to work it to see her when T is out of town so I have something to look forward to. Pdoc says she kinda likes having a low need,low drama client that she can just be with.

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