schizoid ?
Question:
nakedlightb…@aol.comyourself (Diana DeLuna) wrote in news:20030613220740.14935.00001301@mb-m12.aol.com: > Schizoids are not so > self-aware.
in my dsm nothing was mentioned about self-awareness labels have their utilities. It’s true those labels are often used in a pej. way. However, I think of labels more as a way to define a set of characteristics/ behavior/ personality traits.
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"PatUunya" <PatUu…@hotmail.com> wrote | Don’t you worry. WE can read just about any medical book and find | things in there that sound like us and especially when we are having a | hard time. Don’t be so concerned about finding a name like that for | yourself. You probably are not what it says. this is the exact same point that my last psychologist made to me. he said, "when i was in college we all sat around with our textbooks while studying or during our free time telling each other about how this or that diagnosis fit ourselves." that basically says it all right there. the blind and searching leading the blind and searching. | May I ask what kind of | doctor is dispensing all these medications to you? I had medical | doctors messing with medication for me with no luck until I saw a | psychiatrist whoo understands all of those medications. | Pat
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May I ask what kind of > doctor is dispensing all these medications to you? I had medical > doctors messing with medication for me with no luck until I saw a > psychiatrist whoo understands all of those medications. > Pat
Beware of such philosophy. I initially had a fam doc that was a jerk put me on Paxil and say I had anxiety based insomnia. I listened to a bunch of people on a.s.d. (alt.support.depression) about "never let a fam doc give you psych drugs" so I went to a pdoc–who took me right off paxil (horrible earth shattering side effects followed) and dxed me bipolar and stuck me on 3 drugs. Within 4 months I was on 8 drugs–most of which were seizure drugs, plus lithium. I then began to overdose on things, cut myself and be obsessive about suicide. I had side effects on top of side effects and so the pdoc piled more and more drugs on top of everything to manage side effects of everything (and "fine tuning" he called it) In the course of a year, I was on and off 22 different drugs. I had side effects which landed me in the ER, only to have my pdoc discount them (because I was obviously lacking in judgement–you know how those mental patients are <sar>) I finally went off everything and went back to my original fam doc (which is not the one who originally put me on paxil). he is totally supportive of me not being on medication, and he spends like an hour with me every time I go to see him, checking on anything and everything he can think of to make sure things are going well. he gives me xanax for sleep for occasional insomnia–and that’s the only medicine I have. Many many many people who know me think I am 100 times better w/o all the drugs. Everyone I know who is under the care of a pdoc is on at least 3 or 4 different psych drugs–I know alot who are on 7 or 8. A fam. doc takes your entire health into consideration and doesn’t load up your liver and kidneys and brain with all these powerful drugs. I really think that only a small amount of the people in treatment really need all the high powered drugs. Pdocs are trained to see dysfunction, and you can never go to one w/o coming out with 10 different labels. It is true that they do know alot about psych drugs–but they know more about the drugs and what they are intended for (as the pharm rep. tells them at the free lunch) and less about how they affect you now and in the long term. Be cautious…. cogg
