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get the red out

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6. I agree with this
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 08:44 PM
Nov 2013

The first psychiatrist I ever saw, the only one in the town I grew up in, was exactly like this to the extreme; except she did put me on meds, she just never seemed to care that they didn't work.

I was a teenager trying to describe what I now know of as OCD. She never told me anything, just question after question about my obsessions. As far as I knew, my fears I obsessed over were TRUE, I never got any kind of feedback on a diagnosis or what my symptoms were. I was just put on some kind of tricyclic antidepressant and when that did nothing, more questions. I went to hell off and on and finally REALLY to hell over the next 10 years. Maybe she helped someone, but she was no help for me.

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Don't go cold turkey with an SSRI without talking to a professional... HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #1
Yeah I know how to taper off it... Locut0s Nov 2013 #3
I'm really sorry Locut0s, polly7 Nov 2013 #2
Thanks Polly, actually my sessions with him are an hour long... Locut0s Nov 2013 #4
Oh ... well that's frustrating. polly7 Nov 2013 #5
I agree with this get the red out Nov 2013 #6
Maybe not. HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #7
I agree, HS. Tobin S. Nov 2013 #8
Things therapists are unlikely to tell you HereSince1628 Dec 2013 #9
A psychiatrist is not necessarily a psychoanalyst mecherosegarden Dec 2013 #10
Actually this guy is both... Locut0s Dec 2013 #11
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