Can you help me understand?!
Question: please help
my pyschologist gave me the number of a pyschaitrist
mom made an appt
well
when i asked my pyschologist what i have that requires i see a pyschaitrist
his response was that he doesnt care whats wrong with me...what disorder i have and he said that its not important...
so im confused
i mean hes my primary guy
that i go to
why would he be so unconcerned???
Answers: please help
my pyschologist gave me the number of a pyschaitrist
mom made an appt
well
when i asked my pyschologist what i have that requires i see a pyschaitrist
his response was that he doesnt care whats wrong with me...what disorder i have and he said that its not important...
so im confused
i mean hes my primary guy
that i go to
why would he be so unconcerned???
Firstly this guy needs to check he chosen career path and see if it is still right for him. I am not surprised you are confused.
What he probably means is you may need medication, but believe me phychiatrists suck compared to good psychologists. You will prob need both but make sure you never see that guy again.
Think of a psychiatrist as a doctor and a psychologist as a counsellour (they are a lot more qualified but just to make it simple). The doctor will treat your illness, and the counsellour will find out what is wrong with you, how it makes you feel, and how you personally can learn to deal with whatever it is. They can also make you understand what it all means for you and why this sort of thing happens. The doctor will tell you what is happening in your brain to make the illness happen the psychologist is there to deal with you as a person not your brain or the medical side.
Hope this helps xxx
Sounds like you need a new Psychologist. Normally they are they ones to work out problems with you. A Psychiatrist is licensed to give medication. Maybe he thinks you require meds. I would have your mom call and find out why. If that's what he told you, that was rather cold and I wouldn't be going back to him. I wish you good luck.
Don't worry about it. go and see the psychiatrist and ask him. Psychiatrists are good, I used to see one. They're way more useful than psychologists. Go and see, you'll benefit from it.
Yeah you go see one so he can prescribe you 'anti depressants'. Be like everyone else.
Huh? Go find another one Psycologist. Your mom should have read the guy the riot act. That
guy is a nut worse than you could ever be.
I don't know his reasonong but most psycologists would
send you to a Psyciatrist because they think you need a prescription. Psycologists aren't liscensed to do that.
Good luck and don't go back to that jerk.
You need someone that is on your wavelength. But that is very unprofessional what that he said about "not caring". What a fool thats what I say! Can I ask how long you saw this psychologist? Because they are meant to build a trusting relationship. He is no use to you, unless he begins to be respectful. Maybe he is rather impatient or easily frustrated with his clients. But....I would suggest you say to him that you dont feel comfortable and feel that he is being rather harsh with you and you'd like to try a different psychologist. If your too scared to say that, then ask your mum to try to arrange a different one to explain things better. I hope this helps for now.
Psychiatrists can never understand what it is like to have the thoughts and feelings that you are having, because they are not you. Do you go to the beach to buy your dvd's? No, of course not. So why go to see someone who can only try and figure out what is "wrong" with you just by the studying that he or she has done, based on studies done on other people anyway!
Accept what is going on in your head, ponder why, turn it all into something Positive (by writing, art, creative activity, complementary health practices etc) and ride it out.
Do not get onto any medication, as this will make everything worse. Doctors get money from the drug companies for each patient that they can push their drugs to. An example of this is if you go to see a doctor saying that you have really bad aches and pains in your arms. He or she will put you on painkillers. But there are no pains in your arms! You made them up. But still, you get the drugs pushed on you.
Keep your thoughts and feelings full of love, and look around you each day for the beauty in everyday objects.
And KNOW that you are only going thru a phase and that you will be fine.