I fired a psychiatrist who I didn't feel listened to me and insisted on weighing me at every session

SWEET FUCKING CHRIST, what?!?!?!?!? I hope by "fired" you mean "fired the whole man out of a goddamn cannon into a pool of hungry sharks."

(I also had a breathtakingly bad psychiatrist who I had to see in order to get my antidepressants prescribed, and she badgered me until I told her my weight and height and she calculated my BMI for me right there [even though I DIDN'T ASK] [and even though YES I KNOW I'M FAT] and then spent the rest of my 50 minutes telling me I should try Pilates and she would be happy to prescribe weight-loss drugs for me [again, even though I DIDN'T ASK]. We didn't discuss my mental health once. So I asked my primary care doctor [Awesome Doctor] if he could prescribe my antidepressants, told him what fuckery the psychiatrist pulled on me, and he said "Oh hell no, you're not going back to her. I'll prescribe your antidepressants." Bless Awesome Doctor forever.)

Fuck both of those doctors.

Yikes, so many things!

Teppy, I am LIVID about what happened with Tim's dad. WTAF.

~ma for askye and your family — that's a lot.

YAY to Buffista sprig getting vaccinated!

FUUUCK crappy doctors.

I made the mistake of listening to today's NPR Politics Podcast, where veteran journalists I trust a lot basically said if the Dems don't pull their heads out of their asses and do something about voting rights (and especially people running for Secretary of State in multiple states who say they would not have certified the 2020 election), we are in serious danger of facing the end of democracy in this country. Scared the shit out of me. Between that, the fact 26 states are passing laws to restrict teaching "controversial" topics, and the near-constant dread I feel about the climate crisis and powerful people who are doing fuckall to stop it, I've been having a bit of an existential crisis lately.

He really was the worst. He also thought I was drug seeking because I begged him for help when I couldn't sleep due to the very high amounts of Buproprion (Wellbutrin) he put me on. I just remember being so tired and so frustrated, and he's all, "well, take more walks" while I was sobbing in his office. I just wanted to be able to sleep.

Between that, the fact 26 states are passing laws to restrict teaching "controversial" topics, and the near-constant dread I feel about the climate crisis and powerful people who are doing fuckall to stop it, I've been having a bit of an existential crisis lately.

Yes, all the time, every day.

If anyone wants to read a compelling blog about why high school journalists need to start reporting on the laws being passed, check out this piece by my friend and mentor: [link]

I have a wonderful NP who prescribes my psych meds and didn’t treat me like a drug seeker when I told her I needed to go back on ADD meds. I’ve only ever had phone sessions with her, but I am finally on a combination of meds that work. A psychiatrist I used to see was horrible. I cried and cried about not being able to sleep on the meds he had me on, cymbalta I think, Which also weren’t helping and he would not change them.

If anyone wants to read a compelling blog about why high school journalists need to start reporting on the laws being passed, check out this piece by my friend and mentor

If anything gives me hope for the future it is the increased activism I see among young people. And yes, there is nothing more important than stopping the voting restriction efforts and gerrymandering.

It is so discouraging to read the bad therapist recollections. You deserve the awesome caretakers, not the damaging variety.

The psychiatrist I saw who said "you don't have bipolar disorder, you have PTSD" was right but he was also an ass, made me cry, and I had anxiety attacks about seeing him. He was one of the only psychiatrists in the Burlington, VT area who was taking patients ...and his attitude is pretty much why.