Venting Useless doctors

[Hollow men]

Has anyone gotten better thanks to doctors and therapists?
In my case it has been a total waste of time. My therapist always says things that are just common sense, and she admits we are not making progress. I went to a doctor just in case the origin of my problems is physical and not mental (all started with cronic pain, specially in my back, and anxiety) and the guy told me that I'm healthy and should stop faking it lol. So... I'm losing my life, my girlfriend, etc. Why the hell would I be faking anything??
Sorry for the rant, but I would like to know if I'm unlucky or doctors are often useless

 

[Nem]

Drs suck a rhinos ass
Peace/hugs

 

[takeyourshotfunboy]

A lot of people here have been fucked over by doctors and therapists, including me. You´re definitely not the only one.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Drs suck a rhinos ass
Peace/hugs

Doctors work to protocols flow charts and care pathways these days. It's one size fits all. For easy cases this works. For complex cases it doesn't. Ideally you want a doc who thinks and is willing to bend the rules. This is very rare though. They'll just keep plugging you through the same protocols whereby you become a set of symptoms rather than a person.

 

[Hollow men]

Doctors work to protocols flow charts and care pathways these days. It's one size fits all. For easy cases this works. For complex cases it doesn't. Ideally you want a doc who thinks and is willing to bend the rules. This is very rare though. They'll just keep plugging you through the same protocols whereby you become a set of symptoms rather than a person.

You're absolutely right, they try to fit you into patterns, and if you don't fit they don't know what to do. I mean, I understand that their job is not easy, but at least I would expect some empathy and not something like : "I don't know what you have so you are faking it"

 

[Deleted member 1465]

You're absolutely right, they try to fit you into patterns, and if you don't fit they don't know what to do. I mean, I understand that their job is not easy, but at least I would expect some empathy and not something like : "I don't know what you have so you are faking it"

Exactly. I can't help but think you shouldn't be in a caring profession if you don't actually care.

 

[BlueWidow]

99% of the doctors I've ever met in my life-and I mean doctors of all kinds whether it be psychiatric doctors, general practitioners, dentists, and any other kind of doctor- 99% are 100% grade A assholes!
My life started with a doctor telling my family to go home and forget about me because I was most certainly going to die. . . and they've been screwing me over and assuming things about me which are totally wrong ever since! If I never have to go see another doctor in my entire life I'll be perfectly happy with that! Doctors are a waste of time, a waste of energy, and a waste of money!

 

[Nem]

99% of the doctors I've ever met in my life-and I mean doctors of all kinds whether it be psychiatric doctors, general practitioners, dentists, and any other kind of doctor- 99% are 100% grade A assholes!
My life started with a doctor telling my family to go home and forget about me because I was most certainly going to die. . . and they've been screwing me over and assuming things about me which are totally wrong ever since! If I never have to go see another doctor in my entire life I'll be perfectly happy with that! Doctors are a waste of time, a waste of energy, and a waste of money!

Fuckin rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peace/hugs!

 

[woxihuanni]

I went to doctor because I had bleeding under the skin for months. The blood count was fine, but they didn't look at some vitamin levels that can cause this. Anyways, because doctors don't know how to say 'I don't know' and leave it there, she told me that I must've been bruising for months because it was summer and I didn't wear much. Fucker, how many times can I hit my legs and not notice it? Do you think I'm wrestling wild boars all day?

Doctors make me sick.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Do you think I'm wrestling wild boars all day?

Doctors make me sick.

 

[CrushedHopes]

The truth is, psychiatrists aren't all that useful because they can't offer real solutions to your problems. All they do is hand you some meds in an attempt to numb you. That's it. Not to mention that some of us are experiencing problems that don't even have solutions. Some of us just want to die.

Let's say I were sent to a mental ward. I bet you 100% that they won't be able to provide a solution to my current dilemma. In fact, there *is* no solution to my blacklist problem, unless all those people were to suddenly forget about my atrocities. So, since there's no fucking solution, and my life is ruined, death is the only correct answer for me. I'm ending it all. Fuck this shit. Fuck it all. I'm done.

 

[Bluefish]

Yeah I've gotten screwed over by medical professionals. Know lots of people who've gone through the same. Some who have had their lives completely destroyed bc of greedy docs. It's insane. I've definitely lost trust in certain fields of medicine.

 

[Nem]

Yeah I've gotten screwed over by medical professionals. Know lots of people who've gone through the same. Some who have had their lives completely destroyed bc of greedy docs. It's insane. I've definitely lost trust in certain fields of medicine.

I was nearly killed by their bullshit meds, that is why I'm on this site. Totally unaccountable and my dr tried to cover it up
Peace/hugs

 

[BlueWidow]

I was nearly killed by their bullshit meds, that is why I'm on this site. Totally unaccountable and my dr tried to cover it up
Peace/hugs

Bastards!

 

[mediocre]

You're not alone. I've never had a single postitive experience with either my GP or doctors. One of the problems is that they have so many people to see in a day that they don't take the time to listen and often serious medical problems are missed or misdiagnosed. This has happened to several people in my family.

I've been seriously ill for the past few years and still have no answers. It can take months to be referred for a simple scan and then take weeks to get the results of said scan. It's incredibly slow and frustrating. And if it doesn't show anything you're dismissed and back to square one even if you're in pain they don't investigate it any further.

 

[BridgeJumper]

Exactly
Whatever is wrong with me, Im just faking it
And manipulative and attention whoring.
Fuck them. Never trusted them to help anyway, but now I just despise them.
Cases beyond simple situational depression like mine are not worth their time I guess

 

[lymbo]

Has anyone gotten better thanks to doctors and therapists?
In my case it has been a total waste of time. My therapist always says things that are just common sense, and she admits we are not making progress. I went to a doctor just in case the origin of my problems is physical and not mental (all started with cronic pain, specially in my back, and anxiety) and the guy told me that I'm healthy and should stop faking it lol. So... I'm losing my life, my girlfriend, etc. Why the hell would I be faking anything??
Sorry for the rant, but I would like to know if I'm unlucky or doctors are often useless

dyd they send you to ct scans or x rays to see yf there ys somethyng wrong wyth yur back, l have cronyc back payn too

 

[TAW122]

I don't think it's your fault at all. Most people are illogical and disingenuous when recommending about finding a therapist/doctor that helps, particularly therapists (as well as counselors and mental health professionals). I had the same experience too, when I went to therapists, psychologists, and counselors, I at best, found it a waste of time, and at worst, risked getting into trouble for wrongthink/saying the incorrect thing. I realized that there was no help for me and I either had to find my own (by myself) or suffer through life until I die. That really is the result for a lot of people (not all but most). Instead of focusing on the causes (shit society, shitty circumstances, etc.) they only focus on the symptoms (oh you're sad - you're depressed), smfh.

 

[ObsessiveCompulsive]

All the doctors I've went to never helped at all, just more meds that made me worse.

 

[Reyki6667]

All Doctors aren't clever nor scientist. They are selected only for their hability to learn and reflexively spout back what they learn and by reflexively elect a solution. When it come to acknowledge their lack of knowledge, skills, researching new solution, pioneering, instead of using malfunctioning or incomplete secondhanded knowledge, or acknowledging their failure, they are failure, corrupted by their pride and prestige their title give them. The one I respect are the er surgeons, surgeons who literally handle fate of people and researchers but the rest. No. And in the case of " mental" illness where science still don't know shit about what to do.... They are total failure and wasting our money /time, and more so by lying and not admitting their blatant incompetence. Also doctors are human like any others, so....

 

[Hollow men]

dyd they send you to ct scans or x rays to see yf there ys somethyng wrong wyth yur back, l have cronyc back payn too

The scans show nothing wrong with my bones. Yesterday I had a blood test, waiting for results, but I'm certain that my problem is muscular. I just don't know if it's a physical problem or a mental originated one, at first I thought that my anxiety was causing the pain, but it may be otherwise, because there are situation where I'm perfectly comfortable and the pain kicks in like hell and I start feeling anxious. There are people in my family with fybromialgia, so I don't know, I'll have to keep doing tests.

 

[terry_a_davis]

I'm going against the comments here but most of the docs, nurses and psych's i've seen have been good. I'm sorry to hear that's not the case for some others. I distrusted them for a long time early on, but that was when i was mentally ill. Looking back i can see how most of them were trying to help me.

 

[justanotherday]

Has anyone gotten better thanks to doctors and therapists?
In my case it has been a total waste of time. My therapist always says things that are just common sense, and she admits we are not making progress. I went to a doctor just in case the origin of my problems is physical and not mental (all started with cronic pain, specially in my back, and anxiety) and the guy told me that I'm healthy and should stop faking it lol. So... I'm losing my life, my girlfriend, etc. Why the hell would I be faking anything??
Sorry for the rant, but I would like to know if I'm unlucky or doctors are often useless

I do think most doctors and therapists are a waste of my time and money. I have gone to many over the years, and none of them have helped me get better in any way.

 

[Epsilon0]

I have had both good and bad experiences with doctors and psychologists. I would estimate that the good outweighs the bad.
I've met caring doctors who tried to help me, but I've also met really bad ones, who could not be bothered, or lacked knowledge. There were a few times that I left the clinic swearing I would never book an appoinment again.

 

[greencoat111]

No I've never made any progress with any doctors or therapists. The majority of them have been as bad as each other and it's like they are reading from the same script. I just get the usual crap platitudes like my like will get better and my 'thoughts create my reality' which I dont believe for a second. My life experiences and trauma have created my reality

 

[Rena rossy]

Has anyone gotten better thanks to doctors and therapists?
In my case it has been a total waste of time. My therapist always says things that are just common sense, and she admits we are not making progress. I went to a doctor just in case the origin of my problems is physical and not mental (all started with cronic pain, specially in my back, and anxiety) and the guy told me that I'm healthy and should stop faking it lol. So... I'm losing my life, my girlfriend, etc. Why the hell would I be faking anything??
Sorry for the rant, but I would like to know if I'm unlucky or doctors are often useless

My angry face is because of what doctors have told you. Health care professionals should not treat people like that, they need to understand that we aee not faking the symptoms we need help with, they should run the necessary tests and not just prescribe medicarion on guesses it just ugh I really can't stand most of them now

 

[UpandDownPrincess]

The right doctor is priceless. I'm of the mind that you may only ever get one in your lifetime.

Mine came along at just the right time but I moved a few years ago and, being as caring as he is, he limits his practice to local folks that he can see in a minute's notice if need be.

My current MD is a pill-pusher. Luckily my old MD developed my regimen so I can deal with this for now.

Therapists have been almost useless to me and I was severely damaged by one. She can burn in hell forever.

Sometimes you luck out. Sometimes you don't.

 

[Nem]

I've had some shitty drs and therapists, my current therapist is about as helpful as a bag of hammers
Peace/hugs

 

[Sensei]

I'd say 90 % of all psychiatrists and physicians I've met have helped me and very well at that. I find it both alarming and depressing that so many have such negative experiences of psychiatric care and healthcare. If you can't trust people whose job is to help you, then who can you trust?

 

[k75]

I've had very good doctors/therapists and very bad ones. I don't think it's fair to say every one is terrible. They're human, just like us, and you're going to run into all skill levels. And different personality types.

It makes me sad to see so many people with awful experiences. If your current ones aren't working for you for whatever reason, replace them! You deserve good care, and nothing good comes out of sticking with the bad. Especially with therapists... there are different methods and types of therapy. Maybe you just need a different one.