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Psychiatrist's oppositional treatments?

Why is it that when a patient needs help, asks for help and asks for admission to hospital or an increase in medication, they get virtually no response and definitely no support, small increase in meds (not as high as a previous prescription level) No offer of hospital at all for a break from these huge problems going on that are making me ill. Despite my best friend saying I should be in hospital!

BUT....

A few years back the same psych insisted I was ill despite my telling him I really wasn't, I didn't want to be in hospital, so I got Sectioned twice and forced to have several medications with horrid side effects. Refused freedom and basic human rights in a horrible building with terrible facilities for weeks.

WHY?

IS this some weird game they play so they take everything we say and then assume the opposite! Where do they get this treatment ideas from , did they all get the same uni lecture that tells them to oppose any or every suggestion from the patient and always do the direct opposite of what they want?

Withdraw support???!!! What the heck is that all about, what do they think will happen. Why do they do the opposite? Maybe they do want us to end it and get us off the books. It's a very bad show and totally unhelpful. It leaves patients feeling they have no control of their condition and no confidence in the psych in any direction. Are we being punished for daring to be ill again when on their medications?

This was decent psych I've seen for 8-9 years and he's usually good but I will have trouble trusting him for anything from here on. Am considering not going back after this stab in the back.

At times like this you begin to wonder who you can trust with anything. If I see them again it will probably be a silent head down meeting and what's the point going if that's the case.

What would you do? I have schizoaffective disorder (or not as the case may be)

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  • Kitkat
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    I know what you're saying. When I was having depression and asking for help then the doctor gave me the option of taking medication. I had to take it as I was feeling bad but they only gave me a low dose. Then when I developed schizophrenia BAM! Sectioned twice, held down and injected with medications (because I refused to take any) and like you, stuck in a horrible building that had two usuable bathrooms between 10 patients.

    It does seem like a weird game that they play, giving you what you don't want and withholding what you do want, but I think at the end of the day they try and have the patients best interest in mind. I was stabbed in the back by my CPN - she sectioned me on a Friday after telling me that she would see me the following Tuesday. Liar. But I've come to trust her again and I think you should do the same for your psych. He knows your history and so will be able to make the best judgements. But if you're feeling so bad that you think you should be in hospital, tell him so and tell him why you think you should be in hospital. If he still says no then listen to him why he thinks you don't need to be in hospital. Please don't do anything rash. If you feel like you are going to, message me. I've been through what you've been through and I'll help you! Hope this helps :)

  • splash
    1 decade ago

    i can only think maybe that they looked back at your previous admission to see how help-full it had then been? did you get help offered by the home treatment team? i know with your disorder you can get highs and lows? or you sounded unsure ,i am also aware they prefer to treat people in there own homes these days,do you have a care. co.ordinater? if things get worse or-well your not happy call them and say you need to be in,and if your not safe well they have to admit you, take care

    Source(s): plenty of my on life history...
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    1 decade ago

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