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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
In my career I had to interview many psychiatrists regarding their patients who had articulated threats to harm the President.
After many such interviews I reached the conclusion that the psychiatrists spend so much time with the mentally ill that they adopt many of their patients' characteristics and often lose their ability to discern what is abnormal.
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There are also psychiatrists that are no more than pill pushers. They see a symptom from the book they use to treat patients and just prescribe accordingly to their cook book or Bible-- the DSM.
http://www.psych.org/practice/dsm They seem to forget that psychiatry is more art than science especially given how many fads it has had in its very young history as a discipline.
As some may know, I had a nervous breakdown from long term stress (and perhaps other factors which I hope someone is investigating from the documents I sent the ObamaCare people a few months ago) in late March of 2000. I was in the care of a few psychiatrists who never even talked to me while I was in the Clearwater hospital but did charge my parents several thousands of dollars for this treatment. I remember pretty much everything that happened to me. I went into a Pinellas Park facility for a week or so without seeing a judge. One very kind orderly told me to shut up and just roll with the treatment, be friendly, and take your pills. Which I did. I then was with a Directions for Mental Health psychiatrist for about 18 months who charged me $10 a visit but taking or not taking her prescribed pills had no effect on me. I experimented with taking them and not taking them. I did report what I had thought happened to me to cause a nervous breakdown to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office by going down there to their headquarters and thumbing a letter from the Palm Harbor US Representative in front of the nose of the desk clerk so I could talk to a detective--Crandell. I then handed him--Crandell-- a few hundred documents about my survivors/victims rights campaign of 1990-2000 or so. This was on September 18, 2002. The psychiatrists I spoke to in Pinellas County were very poor examples of their profession. The one that I had whenever I told her that something else was going on with me-- in twenty or so e-mails-- would just up my medication or tell me its not her job to look into what I was claiming had happened. Detective Crandell just said that if what I asserted had happened to me-- no crime was involved. (I am not saying more because again I hope that the ObamaCare people are looking into this and connecting various dots from the documents I gave them a few months ago).
I had no mental health problems before 2000 and except for occasional depression-- mainly because no one believed my story-- not much since 2000. I did try to get NAMI-Pinellas County involved but the psychiatrist I had over those 18 months was the same one treating the daughter of the Chapter Head of NAMI-Pinellas County.
http://www.nami.org/MSTemplate.cfm?MicrositeID=220 And, she swore the woman treating her daughter was a great psychiatrist.