Yeah,

I'm talking about irresponsible drug pushing fucktards who could give two shits about making the world a better place for those who need help.

You might say, "GPFontaine... calm down... what are you talking about?"

I'm talking about the fucking worst type of scum. The people who claim they are there to help, but really only want to help themselves. These people fuck everyone over. They rip off insurance companies, they rip off their patients, and they sell their souls to the devil himself.

I speak directly about psychiatrists who do not practice therapy methods.

The guy you see once a month who hands you a prescription and takes your insurance money. Well... fuck you.


- Background -
I need a new doctor. I have been living in CT now for 3 months and have not been able to find someone who does OCD/ADD as a combo. They all claim they are open for new patients. But the second you tell them that you think regular therapy is important along with meds, they want nothing to do with it. They just want to prescribe the meds, make their money and go home.

How about this, form two lines. The doctors who aren't jerking me around wasting my time and the ones who can go and suck their own genitals. If you don't have time to do your fucking job, don't list yourself in the directory. If you can't handle ADD and OCD, don't list them as your specialty.

I'm not asking for much. Just a doctor who will actually try and help. It is a medical fucking situation... I don't exactly have tons of people to go ask. Take that fucking SPAM elsewhere!

The worst part is that the money for this is no fucking joke. Co-Pay + Insurance at my last doctor was $230 per 50 minute session.

I wouldn't be pissed if they actually couldn't help. It is the fact that they know they don't want to, yet they raise there hands to try and get me to just take the meds.

GAH!

Well... I might go black market. I have a lot of extra pain killers. I'll trade them for some Effexor. I figure I'll save myself some money and be my own Dr. I know more about what I need than some Dr. who won't even meet with me.

.... just not funny.

mjl1783 wrote:

Quote: I'm talking about the fucking worst type of scum. The people who claim they are there to help, but really only want to help themselves. These people fuck everyone over. They rip off insurance companies, they rip off their patients, and they sell their souls to the devil himself . Rip off insurance companies my ass. Psychiatrists recieve less reimbursement from insurance companies for talk therapy sessions than they do for an equivalent amount of time spent doling out prescriptions. It's not cheap being a doctor, student loans and malpractice insurance have to get paid, you have to attend all kinds of seminars to stay current on the latest industry developments, and you have to pay staff to keep records and make sure your patients' insurance companies aren't screwing them over. So,if you're looking for someone to blame, blame the insurance companies. On the other hand, how can you really blame the insurance companies? After all, it's easier to prove the efficacy of medication in treating disorders like ADD and OCD than that of traditional therapy. Besides, if these are in fact chronic ailments, then patients will likely require therapy for most of their life, which is expensive. Health insurance is, after all, just socialized medicine on a smaller scale. If some of your customers are using expensive services that all of your customers are essentially paying for, that's increases the cost for everyone. Our health care system is one of the best in the world, but it's a fucking mess. If you have enough money to pay everything out of pocket or don't require much care, you're in good shape. If you have to rely on private insurance or medicare/medicaid, however, thing's aren't so great. You simply cannot have any type of system where the healthy subsidize the care of the sick and not run into these kind of problems. Everybody has to be protected, and in the process, people tend to get screwed over from time to time. This time it happens to be you. Sorry, man, I know this sort of thing is tough, but we've yet to figure out a suitable alternative.

My employers pay a fucking ridiculous amount of money for my insurance. The insurance pays out the full billing rate.

I would be fine if these doctors didn't list themselves as available and suitable practitioners for my conditions.

Blackout wrote:

I've always thought of them as drug dealers who have advanced far enough into the game to afford a tie, some degrees on the wall, and a couch for you to sit on.

That is exactly what they are.

Burt Reynolds wrote:

That is bullshit. I'm not completely opposed to medication for treatment of mental ailments, but unlike physical, I agree that there should be comprehensive therapy to get you to a point where you no longer need the medication. The mind is not like the body, as in you take painkillers or whatever until the body naturally heals itself, but a mental disability doesn't just heal itself, you need to go through a therapy that changes your state of mind, or allows you to handle it without medication down the road. I for one, would not want to have to rely on pills for the rest of my life, to keep my mind in check, not to mention I've had friends who take xanax, and they just aren't the same person when they are on it. It makes them like zombies. Sure they aren't anxious on it, but they are completely apathetic to everything and it's almost scary.

I have been on and off meds for nearly 10 years now. When I was on certain types of meds I would start of great and then 6 months later crash.

I have come to the realization that even with constant therapy, I will never be able to live a happy life without meds. I am able to live without meds, but the quality of life is lower.

The key is to make sure that I am myself while on the meds. It takes observation by a careful Dr. to do this correctly. I have tried several meds and am currently on one that has been ok for a while now. In order to keep taking it though, I need a new Dr. who can continue to monitor and make sure that I don't become apathetic without realizing it. Also, as medicine improves, I would hope to eventually find something that can handle both ADD and OCD. Treating just one makes my life easier, but not as good as I wish it were.

For a few days before the meds crashed out, I was on 300mg Zoloft and 20mg Ritalin. It was the best I have ever felt. Yeah... that was destined to crash out and fade away. Well... never give up

scamrock,

I think you would have been better off getting help. Even if it wasn't meds. Knowing that you have a problem is half the solution.

Maybe meds would have been good, maybe they wouldn't have.

I graduated high school with a A- average, yet I don't think I ever studied. I think that is part of the reason why when I went to college I couldn't take it any more. I hate the idea of a grade. Who the fuck cares if you can get an A but you can't focus on what you are trying to learn.

Grades are subjective and based on the teachers expectations. In my mind, good grades were still piss poor examples of my cognitive abilities, and I was disappointing myself because I couldn't learn the way I wanted to. I was a much bigger critic of myself than the school systems were.

Thinking back to it, the only people who "graded" me on my own scale were my parents. They frustrated the crap out of me because they knew what I could and couldn't do. What really bothers me about this is that they didn't send me for help so that I could get past the mental blocks. When I got older they stepped in a bit more...

It took me quitting college for them to do it.