Story hate my psychiatrist

[Donk]

yestersay i told my psychiatrist that the med he prescribed wasnt working and it gave me the worst anxiety in the morning. instead of switching me to a new med he insisted on increasing my dosage. i asked him how that made sense and he insisted that it does not cause anxiety. so i go online and did some research and it clearly states that anxiety was one of the potential side effects. in addition, while i was in the pysch ward he prescribed 2mg of clonazapam. yesterday he told me 2mg is way too high. i was thinking in my head "then why da fuck did you prescribe me that much in the first place?" now i have to deal with withdraw symptoms of tapering off benzo and the hassle of finding a new doctor for a second opinion. its been 3 mo since i was admitted to the hospital and im very discouraged and frustrated at the moment. hope everyone has better luck with there pyschiatrist.

 

[NotCordelia]

Hi idonk,
Tapering off Benzos is brutal. Just finished a long taper. Yeah, psychiatrists....there's a lot to be said about that branch of medicine and we arent alone in frustration with them. Side effects are very real. Should be called just"effects" because that is what is true. Your experience is disgusting but pretty typical of these clowns.
The anxiety after Benzos is bad enough without having a med that causes anxiety.
hope it gets better and you get heard on this issue.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

yestersay i told my psychiatrist that the med he prescribed wasnt working and it gave me the worst anxiety in the morning. instead of switching me to a new med he insisted on increasing my dosage. i asked him how that made sense and he insisted that it does not cause anxiety. so i go online and did some research and it clearly states that anxiety was one of the potential side effects. in addition, while i was in the pysch ward he prescribed 2mg of clonazapam. yesterday he told me 2mg is way too high. i was thinking in my head "then why da fuck did you prescribe me that much in the first place?" now i have to deal with withdraw symptoms of tapering off benzo and the hassle of finding a new doctor for a second opinion. its been 3 mo since i was admitted to the hospital and im very discouraged and frustrated at the moment. hope everyone has better luck with there pyschiatrist.

He's clearly a fuckwit. Dump him and ask for another if you can. If not, don't trust him, do your own research and just use him as the pill dispensary that he is.
A search on here for 'antidepressants' might be useful too.

 

[noaccount]

I am so sorry. How they 'read' us often gets prioritized over how we actually feel, and that's wrong. It sucks to get stuck going it alone, but if you don't find a more sympathetic doctor - many people have tapered-down their meds with *no* doctor, or without telling their doctor. yeah, with benzos more than with any other drug, it's important to take the tapering slow. besides the old "harm reduction guide to coming off psychiatric drugs" (free public pdf), matt samet has written a lot of good stuff about his recovery from the same? whatever you choose to do, glad you're finding support here, but also, sorry you're here as they say, etc.

 

[Mort]

I hit my psychiatrist he was an asshole at the time i had shut down no emotions what so ever . He new i had a bit of a temper so instead of try to make me laugh cry or any thing else. He try to make me mad it takes a long time well most times i can take a lot then i just lose it in a big way . So they he is having a go at me for a good couple of hours he could see it was getting to me by then. So he just kept on going and going then i stood up and tried to leave but he just stood in they way and kept on at me . Next thing i know he was flying across the room when he hit the floor i was on top of him i a flash. I was hitting him and hitting him over and over then the orderlys were grabbing me trying to pull me of in the end it took six of them to get me of them . And sum of the had bin nock about abit and odd thing is i cant remember what happened as this was going on one minute i was sitting down next thing i new was i was pind to the floor by six big guys telling me to relax. Well lets just say the psychiatrist quite his job after that i was lock up in a little room for a few weeks doped up to the eyeballs. After that little episode they treated me a lot better LOL