#ntadw

[nevertrustadoctorwho]

you have hopefully heard this one before but if anyone ever reccomends cognitive behavioural therapy for pain, RUN.

unsurprisingly, not being allowed to say the word "pain" does not in fact stop your immune system from disintegrating your nerves.

Relatedly, if someone tries to diagnose you with a stress caused thing without checking bloods/MRI/etc first, FIND A NEW DOCTOR PLEASE. cos that's how i ended up with brain damage.

It's ridiculous how doctors like to write off everything as stress without actually investigating the cause, especially if the patient is female.

[nevertrustadoctorwho]

Never trust a therapist who immediately shuts down any questioning of a diagnosis by saying it’s just denial. Denial is definitely common but sometimes people can genuinely feel like a diagnosis isn’t accurate, sure it might end up being accurate anyway, but either way it should be explained to you and you should be allowed to ask questions. (Especially more “major” diagnoses that you will be spending a lot of time in treatment for)

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[nevertrustadoctorwho]

Never trust a therapist who asks you to sympathize with your adulterer father on the assumption that he thinks a certain way because he’s Asian.

This therapist was not Asian.

That... wow. Some people are really still into the whole noble savage nonsense I guess!

[nevertrustadoctorwho]

Never trust a doctor who spends the entire appointment telling you that you should change your combination of meds to a DIFFERENT combination of meds just so you can lose weight.

(Not even what the appointment was for. I was trying to get a referral to a gastro doctor so I could get meds for my chronic stomach issues)

Anon added context here.

[nevertrustadoctorwho]

had a therapist who, when i was a teen, secretly wrote down every negative remark or abusive thing my father did, typed them all up, and sent them to him without telling me :’)

That is so messed up. Yeah, never trust a therapist who does... that.

[nevertrustadoctorwho]

never trust a therapist who talks about her kids and her dogs the whole session. also, especially, never trust a therapist who talks about her former clients and how it's so sad that they became goth and were therefore lost to satanic influences.

Wow. Therapists REALLY need to keep their religious/spiritual beliefs out of therapy unless explicitly asked.

[nevertrustadoctorwho]

Never trust a doctor who doesn't believe in mental health problems, hates kids and the elderly, has numerous preventable deaths on their record, and called a patient with Fibromyalgia (my mother) a drug seeker for.... Asking about the possibility of non-medicinal options for her pain because she wanted OFF her drugs!

(yes, these were all the same doctor. She replaced our retired family doctor and we learned almost all of this about her the first visit. My mother found her on RateMD and found a lot of people complaining about her, including the preventable deaths. We had to pull some stuff to change doctors, but we would not agree to go back to her)

That's awful, I don't understand how doctors who were implicated in (especially multiple) preventable deaths can still practice.

[nevertrustadoctorwho]

psychiatrist made me take seroquel for 2 years when i didn't need it and she was too scary for me to be willing to ask to not take it anymore (along with being like. generally mean to me for no reason, told me i only thought i was trans because i hated women, etc). primary care provider then told me to stop taking it cold turkey (you are never supposed to do this barring genuine emergencies because of how bad the withdrawals get)

Never trust a therapist who coerces you to take unnecessary drugs. And never trust a doctor who tells you to quit a med cold turkey without consideration of the effects of doing that.