Posted by Fred Potter on March 15, 2001, at 18:00:52
Can someone please advise me? I've just had a horrible meeting with a psychiatrist who favours the confrontational approach. He is a sort of behaviourist so he had told me to give up Prozac, which I'd been prescribed 2 weeks before by another pdoc. And to stop taking Xanax or he wouldn't treat me. I told him that wasn't safe done suddenly. He said it is quite often and if I felt happier I could stop it 4 3 2 1. I said if he told patients to stop it suddenly he was being irresponsible, which is where all the name calling started. "Incredibly adolescent", "a 5 year old", "unbelievably arrogant" etc. My wife was present and it didn't help when she agreed. He would occasionally snigger to my wife over some sad fact that I came up with, like the contents of my medicine cupboard.
So now he's refusing to treat me. I could try giving up Xanax, but why when it helps? I thought CBT worked better in combination with drugs. Where should I go from here ?
Thanks for reading this
Fred
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