Are many Psychiatrists con-artists? - Mental Health Message Board

ILuvBoston · 01-05-2007, 12:59 AM

I often wonder if many psychiatrists are more concentrated in their business and making money, rather than their patients who are all strangers

If a psychiatrist cures all his clients..... then he/or she will have no clients.... and therefore no job.

It seems like theyre too quick to push medications on people... and that they have deals with companies like GlaxoSmithKline, etc.

In 2001... I started having bad panic attacks...... I was prescribed paxil now I cant get off.... and its so sad...... i have these "electrical zaps" everytime i try to quit.... that zap me in the brain........ the psychologist never told me it would happen......

It just seems like a new drug comes out every year, psychiatrists push it onto their clients.... and then when it is realized those medications are dangerous... .a new one comes out....

Prozac... Zoloft... Paxil.... Zyprexa.... i dont even know what the new one is.... or what the new one next year will be

What are your thoughts on this??

Sannah · 01-05-2007, 08:48 AM

Our whole medical field and treating of illness in the USA is medicine based instead of prevention or alternative medicine. Psychiatrists are doctors and they have the same outlook, medicine, medicine, medicine. Therapy with a psychologist or other mental health care professional will work on the issues that are causing the anxiety. I recovered from anxiety without medicine but with finding the issues that were causing the anxiety. I read a pamphlet a month or so ago which was for a conference on anxiety. In it, the presenter wrote that people with anxiety hardly ever think that there are any issues that cause it. I have tried to post on the anxiety boards and it was useless for me because I wanted to talk about issues and everyone else on there is just talking about meds.

firenice · 01-05-2007, 09:24 PM

I wouldn't call them con artists; but, they are often deeply entrenched in the system of their profession, which is, after all, medical. I would like to see all symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress....whatever, begin from a psychological approach first and use medication as a secondary, or later, option. In some cases, medication has been helpful. The same problem holds in other areas of the medical profession. Surgery is often the first choice as opposed to first trying alternatives. Sometimes surgery is necessary, but not all surgeries are needed. In fact, our whole cultural approach to a problem is often to bury it, smother it, kill it rather than understand it and change it. But, more importantly, what are you goind to do about your medication issue?

bachiach · 01-06-2007, 09:41 AM

Once they become familiar with you and get you on meds that work, usually you only have to see them once every 3 months to get your meds re-ordered. Its like asking if car dealerships are con artists, yes and no. Legally no, morally they usually are. Its a business where they need you to keep coming back. All health care is. Why do you think there is no cure for cancer? If your cured, no more chemo, no more radiation, no more Dr. visits and MRI's. Why in the world would they want to cure that.

I am seeing a psychologist for the past 3 weeks. Calling her today to cancel our appointments in the future. I don't believe she can help me, actually noone for that matter can. Maybe some people on this board can help a bit, only because they have gone through what I am going through or are going through it. I think thats the only way to get real help.

Just the same as buying a Mercedes from a salesman that drives a Ford. He can tell you specifications about it, what it is suppose to do, but unless that is his primary car, he cannot give you an accurate portrail of how a Mercedes really is.

Of course this is just my opinion. But so is everything else on here.

Sannah · 01-06-2007, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by bachiach

I am seeing a psychologist for the past 3 weeks. Calling her today to cancel our appointments in the future. I don't believe she can help me, actually noone for that matter can.

Counseling changed my life 2000%. I highly recommend it.