Posted by Dinah on October 20, 2003, at 16:26:56
In reply to Re: well, saw my pdoc... » Dinah, posted by Penny on October 20, 2003, at 14:37:45
I don't blame you. He sounds wonderful. I'm so happy for you!
Mine does 15 minutes meds checks and if I try to stray into, well... shall we say the more dramatic aspects of my illness... he gets even more poker faced and seems vaguely disapproving. It may be transference on my part of course. He's so darn blank that I can read what I like. But I have sort of been trained not to mention self injury or suicidal ideation except in the most dry and matter of fact way (if at all).
Once my therapist was out of town and unreachable when I was having strong suicidal ideation. I called this guy and he said (very mildly) "Well, that doesn't sound good. I don't usually do therapy with you, but if your therapist doesn't have a backup, call me and we'll schedule something." And he just sounded so.... dry. I was so embarassed that the suicidal ideation disappeared. An effective treatment method, I must confess.
I'm not sure I really like him, because it doesn't feel right to have a pdoc that you don't feel like you can be honest with. But there are a lot of very bad ones out there, and I don't want to jump into the fire. :(
Thank heavens yours was there when you needed him! And to have him follow all of the possibly psych related stuff as well! That would be great.
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