I just yelled at my shrink

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I don't lose my temper very often, as a matter of fact I have a very hard time expressing it verbally as I assume someone will discredit my feelings with slick verbiage, which is exactly what happened. Today was my 3 month visit to my psychiatrist who writes my two prescriptions. That's all she does. I haven't seen her a single time that she hasn't been at least a half an hour late. Once she was so late, when I sat down the first thing she said was "You didn't want to talk about anything, did you?" Well, I did but it wasn't urgent and in any event I was going to feel like a schmuck taking up her valuable time with my issues. This has been bugging me for a while. So today, after the car breaks down at the grocery store and I have to call my mother to rescue me and lend me her car, I rush down to make my appointment on time and then I sit in an empty waiting room for 45 minutes before I spoke to the receptionist. I just asked if she was held up but then as I started talking I got madder and madder and madder and I just wanted to go berserk. So of course when she gets to me she is very formal and chilly and kept saying" Fine we'll move you to someone else who isn't as busy as I am." I wasn't abusive to her. I told her I was angry about being made to wait every.single.time. Of course my time is unimportant. As far as I'm concerned if I have to wait 45 minutes to an hour just for someone to say,"Hi, how are you?Are the meds okay?You don't need to talk do you?" and then spend all of 30 seconds to write the prescriptions, then a nurse practitioner will do just fine.

Congratulations! You just got an irritating twit out of your life! Now let's hope her replacement has a little more empathy.

Good for you! Time for a pizza party!

Oh, and if you're seeing her on insurance make sure you report this to them. More likely than not, she was billing the full appointment time, which you did not get.

And kudo's for dropping a twit. Everyone needs to loose one once in a while.

I would have been angry as well. Especially with all the things that happened before your appointment, and yet you still got there on time and she didn't even have the courtesy to acknowledge your anger. For someone who works with people, she seems to suck at it.

I give you credit for being able to voice your anger, even though you said you were yelling. I wish I could yell. I just cry.

Congratulations on doing so, I would have done the same, actually psychiatrists and I never did mix lol, I hope you get someone better next time.

For me, I personally never found them a help, just wound me up.

I agree, let's have a party!.

That's funny because that's exactly what I'm eating right now.

Well, did she try and talk to you during your initial sessions? She may have taken your lack of conversation as indication that you did not want to talk; after all, each time she's asked you, you could have said something.

Probably just as well you're changing thoughl you guys don't sound that compatible.

My version of yelling, which is speaking with emphasis

If you need someone to talk to, I would suggest getting a psychologist along with a psychiatrist. Doctors are often late but unforgiving if the patient is late. They are normally just for diagnosing and writing prescriptions. A psychologist would be someone to talk to about problems, if you need that.

Same most of the time, either that or I do come across as attacking because I just let it build up so much, and quite frankly, it is them that I'm ticked at for things that they have done.

We've had a few good sessions, I just don't like the assumption that my schedule is unimportant. Being a poor single mom takes up a lot of time.

Yeah I know the deal with psychiatrists and talk therapy. They don't do it anymore. I stopped counseling when my therapist retired. We were at an impasse anyway. The things I couldn't solve were Why can't I get a real job and how come I can't have a relationship? She knew my son had AS but she had never heard of it. It wasn't until coming here and finding people with the same difficulties that I realized my problem may stem from being on the spectrum.

Sorry, I forgot about the lateness. Yeah, that would piss me off too. I've worked with psychiatrists before though and many patients don't show up or only 2 hours later; I guess afteer a while, they stop worrying about turning up on time. I agree, it's not fair on you though.

There's no need to be embarrassed, I would like that even better.



When I'm agitated (one step away from anger) I may come across as attacking, but usually I will limit my comments or responses to as few words as possible. The more I talk, the greater chance there is for me to become fully angry.

Well, if you only need the meds, I don't know if it's possible where you live - but my psychiatrist just sent a letter to my family doctor, and I simply call my health care clinic when I need prescriptions, and go to pick them up a day later...

I yelled at mine all the time as a child. All of my phyatriasts were stupid and would always talk down to me or refused to hear my side of the story becuase I was "just a child". If they wouldn't listen to me why did they need to talk to me? Why could they have just talked to my parents? I never wanted to take medication but I was forced to and it NEVER did what it was supposed to and created more problems than solutions. They never took my accounts of the bullying seriously and they said it was my fault.

I need medication for anxiety but I would rather have the constant panic attacks than deal with the incompetence of some of these people.