Posted by noa on February 24, 2002, at 16:57:54
In reply to You won't believe this! » OldSchool, posted by spike4848 on February 23, 2002, at 18:50:28
See, to me, it didn't sound like the therapist is asking you to "trash" psychotherapy---it sounds to me like he is asking you to join the two forms of treatment for stronger effect!
I also am starting to wonder about how geography plays into this. I find myself wondering where y'all live that you are meeting psychiatrists who only like to do therapy! That is very different from my experience! Sure, there are some here and there who do therapy and very little medication, but most psychiatrists I've heard of are doing a lot of psychopharm and very little therapy. Has been this way for about a decade.
Or therapists who have had their heads in the sand for the past few decades and have a bad attitude about depression being a medical illness??? Not in my experience! On the contrary, most I've encountered see their role as providing what is often part of a total treatment plan that involves medication when indicated.
Every so often, I hear about therapists who do have a bad attitude about meds. A friend of mine extricated herself from a bad therapy situation in which the therapist's philosophy was that if you take medication you are avoiding the real issues and if you need medication you should be seeing a psychiatrist instead of her. She even communicated this philosophy in her printed literature. Personally, I think it is malpractice, but the way she actually worded the statement in print can be defended legally.
But for the most part, I think that therapist is not the norm in today's mental health world, at least as I've experience it. So that is why I asked about geography.
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