It's a psychiatrist I went to see.Smutty said:A Psych's evaluation is a lot better than a Family Doctor's. They just hand them out like candy.
I was talking to my friend earlier, and he told me the same thing. All psychiatrists know about are drugs. I'm seeing my family doctor next week so I'll be sure to ask her to direct me to a psychologist instead.EliteLamer said:Psychaiatrist solve all problems with pills, if I were you I would go to psychologist and have them help you work out your problems. If nothing works for you then the psychologist will give you meds but Psychaiatrist suck because no matter what you go to them for they will just give you a pill. That is what they do.
Kerberos said:I was talking to my friend earlier, and he told me the same thing. All psychiatrists know about are drugs. I'm seeing my family doctor next week so I'll be sure to ask her to direct me to a psychologist instead.
I seriously don't see why she is so prone to give me drugs with some scary side effects just because I'm slightly depressive mostly because of my heavy workload at school. All I want is for them to help me have a small break from school. The psychiatrist is telling me that she won't even give me any sort of note or anything unless I take the medication. WTF? If that's not pressure, I don't know what is.
busydoingnothing said:Psychologists only job (pretty much) is to prescribe medication, so of course they will recommend it. I would recommend seeing a psychologist first to be evaluated before jumping the gun, especially if you are hesitant. Have a few sessions, get a good diagnosis, and do the research online to see what other people think about the various drugs out there. Remedyfind.com seems to be a good site for just that.
Wait...so you want a doc to write you out of school because there's too much work, but you're complaining because the doc is saying if you're depressed then you should take a med for it and you're bitching that the doc is wrong, you just want a break from school?Kerberos said:I'm slightly depressive mostly because of my heavy workload at school. All I want is for them to help me have a small break from school. The psychiatrist is telling me that she won't even give me any sort of note or anything unless I take the medication. WTF? If that's not pressure, I don't know what is.
7960 said:Wait...so you want a doc to write you out of school because there's too much work, but you're complaining because the doc is saying if you're depressed then you should take a med for it and you're bitching that the doc is wrong, you just want a break from school?
Aren't you doing the EXACT SAME thing you're bitching about the doc doing?? Taking the easy way out??
WTF......you don't need a psychologist or a psychiatrist and you don't need meds. You need to man-up and either do the work or fail at the work and not blame the work for making you "slightly depressive" for the reason you're not finishing.
Not at all. Though thanks for offering insight into your own personality.7960 said:right back atcha........... because I got it 100% correct.
To explain in the fewest words: working full-time as a coop student in Software Engineering in a high tech development company while studying Software Engineering full-time from May to December of last year. All that while maintaining a GPA of 4.00. Came back in January only school and could barely keep up under a full-time course load only. Need to recuperate.JustJeff said:If it's from a heavy workload, it's stress related. Medication can't fix your way of life.
You need to change the way you live in order to feel better about yourself. Think about what you are doing now and how is it effecting your life. How about a run down of what you do each day and what is causing you to have such a heavy work load? What factors play into it?
I'm going by what YOU said.Kerberos said:Not at all. Though thanks for offering insight into your own personality.![]()
What she's saying is she thinks you're full of it and that you're trying to get her to give you some time off because you want it, not because you need it.you said:All I want is for them to help me have a small break from school. The psychiatrist is telling me that she won't even give me any sort of note or anything unless I take the medication.
I don't feel like arguing, and please stop attacking me.7960 said:I'm going by what YOU said.What she's saying is she thinks you're full of it and that you're trying to get her to give you some time off because you want it, not because you need it.
Kerberos said:I don't feel like arguing, and please stop attacking me.![]()
I'm not attacking you and there is no "right." I'm replying to what you are posting. You are giving the information, you are telling us your side, you you you. I'm just mirroring it back to you. If you don't like what you're reading remember the what the source was.Kerberos said:I explained myself but all you want is to be proven right.
Perhaps I did not express myself well enough. What I meant with light depression is that I was previously diagnosed with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysthymia .7960 said:oh, come on.
I'm not attacking you and there is no "right." I'm replying to what you are posting. You are giving the information, you are telling us your side, you you you. I'm just mirroring it back to you. If you don't like
what you're reading remember the what the source was.