Posted by just plain jane on November 6, 2004, at 23:00:41
In reply to What your T does when you cry?, posted by Skittles on October 25, 2004, at 22:31:15
LOL
Yesterday I saw my Psychiatrist for the second time. I had hoped to have him see what happens to me as the day progresses; to illustrate how the drugs I am on may not be doing the job.
Cute.
I was strung out from two days and nights of minimal sleep of poor quality due to my extreme maternality and the birth of a litter of puppies from our latest addition dog.
I had taken the last puppy, severely runty, from mom to bottle feed and care for, so, since I had no one to take over this responsibility, I took Flash (the runty pup) with me, in my shirt, right up in the bosom region.
Anyway, to the crying thing...
On the way to my appointment I was delayed when I had to pull over and clean the puppy poo out of my cleavage, so I was 15 minutes late and my anxiety (due to not taking my xanax) was real high.
I get in there, I wait for another five minutes, I, who am normally pretty together in "public", pacing back and forth, walking in circles. By the time he comes and takes me to his office I was wrecked, broke down crying at his threshold. Not loud boo hoos, mind you.
I tried explaining about my Celexa & Wellbutrin combo seeming to be losing its efficacy, about not taking Xanax unless I was really bad off, et cetera.
His reaction to my crying?
"I'm going to up your Xanaz to three times a day and I really want you to take it as prescribed."He said that about 5 times, while I'm sitting there explaining real issues despite the tears, my concern on the drugs, the stressors current in my life.
"Take the Xanax regularly," was pretty much all he could say.
I think he was totally overwhelmed by a crying woman.
I asked my T about this when I went to my regular therapy a couple hours later and she verified that he seems to get glazed over when a woman cries in his presence.
No wonder he works in a VA facility where he sees 300 men to 1 woman.
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