Well, a psychiatrist or a therapist isn’t there to be combative. They are there to make you feel better. If you believe the medication won’t work and you don’t do anything with it, you actually won’t see any difference - even if it actually helps you, you will think “I just had a better day, it’s all”. SSRIs sadly aren’t magic happy pills, but they do help if you let them, provided you don’t have treatment resistant depression (which could also mean you have something else, for which SSRIs aren’t the full solution, at least that was the case for me).
Not a doctor, just an idiot that went through all of it and trying to cope with ADHD. Medicated of course.
The doctor’s internal monologue: “Oh God it’s one of these assholes who did 10min of googling and reading forums and thinks they know every single thing about medical science. Fuck fuck fuck he won’t shut up I shouldn’t have suggested that. OK, deflect, call him smart and move on that’ll get him to shut up finally”
In this image: Anon doesn’t know how to read subtext
What the doctor said: “It seems you’ve done some research. It’s true that medication often has side effects, but this is not always the case and is often outweighed by the benefits. Let’s set that option aside for now, and revisit later.”
What anon heard: “Wow, you avoided my dastardly trap! I’m going to have to be more careful around you.”
“If I push on this, I will alienate myself from this clearly mentally unstable patient and at that point there is no chance to help them”
It’s literally how mental health professionals are trained.
De-escalating with mentally troubled people.
Step 1: agree with them
- be me
- finally a practicing doctor after an eternity of school
- on my way to the next patient
- overwhelming stench of B.O. as I open the door
- try my best to hide my disgust and ask how he’s doing
- patient goes on a rant about how life is unfair, something about jewish people and 13%
- just nod along as I pull up his info
- guy is clearly depressed
- suggest ssri’s to improve his outlook on life
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- guy proceeds to spend 20 minutes talking about how he saw a post online saying ssri’s are bad, it’s mind control, and he mentions jewish people again
- already 5 minutes late for my next patient
- nod and agree and tell him to have a nice day
Why can’t these people understand I’m just trying to help them?
