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Tobin S.

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4. My first psychiatrist said this to me about 2 minutes into our first session

Wed Nov 13, 2013, 06:38 PM

Nov 2013

"Has it occurred to you that you are not a very nice person?"

If he had been a better doctor he would have realized that something definitely was not right in my head and I wasn't trying to be an asshole. It's called psychosis. You'd think it would be very apparent to a guy who spent 8 years studying how to treat it.

He prescribed an anti-depressant and told me to come back in a month. That anti-depressant was like bringing a squirt gun to a three alarm fire. I did not go back. I was 23 then. I would not get proper treatment until I was 30. That bastard cost me 7 years.

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What's the worst thing a psychiatrist has said to you?... [View all] Locut0s Nov 2013 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author libodem Nov 2013 #1

Worst? A psychiatrist went into a reverie fantasizing about boners. HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #2

Sorry about the self delete libodem Nov 2013 #3

My first psychiatrist said this to me about 2 minutes into our first session Tobin S. Nov 2013 #4

??? I'm not a "nice" person. I never will be. You are, Tobin. hunter Nov 2013 #5

You are kinder than you give yourself credit for. Tobin S. Nov 2013 #7

I'm never going to "grow up" but group therapy has been helpful to me. hunter Nov 2013 #6

After telling one about abuse. Neoma Nov 2013 #8

I would have walked out. moriah Nov 2013 #10

Not his job either. Neoma Nov 2013 #11

The psychiatrist in the inpatient stay this week tagged me as having Borderline Personality Disorder moriah Nov 2013 #9