Sensei
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- Nov 4, 2019
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When I read the posts about psychiatric staff here, they are almost invariably negative. Psychiatric staff members are portrayed as unempathetic, manipulative, ignorant, incompetent, calculating, callous, and what have you. It's almost as if they are the enemy. I don't recognise myself in this. At all.
I feel ill 14 years ago, give or take a year, and I've met at a very minimum 20 psychiatric nurses and psychiatrists throughout the years. The only one I have something negative to say about is a psychiatrist who gave me lamotrigine in monotherapy despite the risks involved. To be fair, she just wanted to help me and was unfortunately ill-formed. The rest of them have been genuinely helpful, understanding, caring, patient, knowledgeable, accommodating, and respectful. I wish I could give every single one of them a medal.
Since they are such nice people, I'm not being completely open about how suicidal I really am, because I don't want to upset them. After all, there's not much they can do about it. It's also one of the reasons I hesitate to end it all, because it's just as disheartening for psychiatric staff to lose a patient as it is for regular medical staff.
Surely, I can't be the only one?
I feel ill 14 years ago, give or take a year, and I've met at a very minimum 20 psychiatric nurses and psychiatrists throughout the years. The only one I have something negative to say about is a psychiatrist who gave me lamotrigine in monotherapy despite the risks involved. To be fair, she just wanted to help me and was unfortunately ill-formed. The rest of them have been genuinely helpful, understanding, caring, patient, knowledgeable, accommodating, and respectful. I wish I could give every single one of them a medal.
Since they are such nice people, I'm not being completely open about how suicidal I really am, because I don't want to upset them. After all, there's not much they can do about it. It's also one of the reasons I hesitate to end it all, because it's just as disheartening for psychiatric staff to lose a patient as it is for regular medical staff.
Surely, I can't be the only one?
