People have asked "Can't doctors help with your psych drug withdrawal issues?"
Not really because most choose not to recognize the syndromes.
Beyond that, if I see my GP, he may run general tests, but will want psychiatrist to oversee psych drug part, and
then the psychiatrist will insist I get back on meds, & if I explain why I won't, including phys reactions, like kidney stones & vasculitis, it's recorded as self-reporting conditions. The psychiatrist doesn't follow up with calls to the urologist or dermatologist to strategize,
and if all this stress of traveling around to doctors sets off migraines, my neurologist might suggest changes in managing that, but he won't include assessment of all my other issues, nor will he contact the other doctors looking at specific parts of me, so
medical care ends up being like the blind men and the elephant, where one only feels the big elephant ears, one only the tail, one the trunk, etc., but they don't realize the huge wholeness of the beast.
But I'm lucky to have health coverage at all in the US, right?
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When I was in the hospital due to kidney stones, my pain was managed, but not in any cooperative way with me.
I was injected with morphine, oxycodone, vicodin, & others without any discussion about my 17 years in recovery from drug use or any acknowledgment that I was still in
withdrawal from 7 psych drugs being cold stopped. Instead of counseling me through the weirdness of the way painkillers affected me, not to mention the invasive & painful kidney stone removal & stent I now had shoved up me, I endured psych evaluation to determine potential of
transferring me to a psych unit, a congregate setting, during a pandemic. Thank goodness for my psychologist sister on the phone during the consult, loudly bringing in liability issues. I was allowed to go home, but without any pain med prescript to at least wean me down off of
When you interview for jobs they leave lots out of what's expected from you in the end.
For instance, as a barista I was told I'd serve coffee, pastry to customers & clean up. No mention of the 200+ ppl to move thru in the AM & the sell, sell in slower times (be a coffee expert!)
when I was a framer at a crafts outlet, they said I'd help ppl choose mats & frames, then put together final pieces as components arrived, but they didn't say I'd need to upsell, upsell & that at xmas they offered deep discounts & we'd move promised completes in short time, or
as a salon receptionist, was told I'd schedule ppl according to each stylist's preferences, ring ppl up after, but not that I'd also need to sell, sell product to anyone who wandered in or to back up stylists, nor that I'd be wiping down products & shelves in nice clothes daily,
2020, a helluva year for everyone & I had my share of it. Beyond the pandemic, justice & rights movements, US presidential election, west coast on fire while gulf coast hurricane-pelted, mixed with randomness like murder hornets,
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I was left to recover myself from psychiatrist stopping 5 meds, no taper, then covering up her actions. Jan-March I largely spent nursing myself through withdrawal illness, reaching out on twitter for help & finding the right community,
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while at the same time pursuing a psychiatrist switch at the mental health center. This involved filing a human rights complaint, but since the psych lied, my claims of rights violations were deemed baseless, but I held my ground. Yet,
So people say, if you just complied with & worked with your psychiatrists, why would you have problems? And if you did, just file a complaint or even take them to court maybe?
Suppose I just want note that I was noncompliant with medications removed from that hospital record. Well, that will be challenged by the ruling of human rights dept at mh ctr, which favored the psychiatrist's denial that she cold stopped meds.
That's only part of the fight.
Then I have to bring in this psychiatrist's poly-drugging of me for 3 years that led to worse bipolar symptoms, desires to self-harm, and greatly increased psych hospitalizations, as I continued to comply with her recommended treatments.