My therapist that I've been seeing for 6 months can't see me anymore

[lili]

Hey everyone,

I guess I have overdosed so much, that my therapist got fed up with me or I don't know. I told him that I did an overdose last week and he asked why didn't I contact him and I said because I wanted to die. He then said he will then be unable to see me anymore because its been happening frequently that I overdose on the medications that he prescribes and that he thinks I need higher care. What does that mean? What is a level of higher care than a psychiatrist?

I don't know this has me very distressed and even made me feel more suicidal. I feel like therapists always end up doing this to me at some point. It's like I have too many problems for peopled I am too chaotic. I mean fuck I wish I wasn't alive so that I would stop scaring away people like this.

Anyone else experience these predicaments? So sad and depressed after this interaction.

 

[lionetta12]

Hey everyone,

I guess I have overdosed so much, that my therapist got fed up with me or I don't know. I told him that I did an overdose last week and he asked why didn't I contact him and I said because I wanted to die. He then said he will then be unable to see me anymore because its been happening frequently that I overdose on the medications that he prescribes and that he thinks I need higher care. What does that mean? What is a level of higher care than a psychiatrist?

I don't know this has me very distressed and even made me feel more suicidal. I feel like therapists always end up doing this to me at some point. It's like I have too many problems for peopled I am too chaotic. I mean fuck I wish I wasn't alive so that I would stop scaring away people like this.

Anyone else experience these predicaments? So sad and depressed after this interaction.

I guess he's maybe talking about psych ward?

 

[jodes2]

Bloody bastards. They mean you need a crisis team, ie someone to check in with you regularly to make sure you don't need hospitalisation. They just don't want the bloody responsibility. It should be illegal to withdraw support like this from someone, but it's probably the bloody law that causes this. They need to defer you to someone with more qualifications to determine if you're a risk to yourself. Useless bastards

 

[lili]

It's just so sad because I started building up a really great relationship with him. I had never felt as connected to a therapist before, but I guess it just as everything else ended up disappointing in the end. I know the overdoses are my fault, I can't help the fact that I really don't want to be alive. But then he saying that he doesn't want me as a patient anymore after I told him that is like I don't know just shows their just doctors in the end. I don't know this hurts me a lot.

I guess he's maybe talking about psych ward?

He did ask me to go voluntarily to go to a psych ward, but he doesn't want to be my psychiatrist anymore outside of that. I don't want to voluntarily go to a psych ward or to the emergency room I don't know.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

With what you told him about wanting to die, can he have you involuntarily committed? Maybe that's why he doesn't want to continue to be your therapist, because he knows if he involuntarily commits you, you'll be pissed off with him even more and he'll be unable to help you at all.

 

[hellispink]

I had therapists dumping me like garbage. Most of them made up stories like they were switching jobs. But ended up being fake after. One of the last ones I used to see, she said she was gonna be away for too long so I needed to find someone else. But one day or two after she was seeing patients and working normally. Like they don't even have the ovaries or balls required to tell things straight as they are. The truth all they care is about money and if a patient is too much they will just get rid of it like they did to me. Horrible system indeed.

 

[qiuyu]

Why would anyone do such a thing? That's horrible. I'm sorry this happened to you. Maybe your physiatrist feel responsible for your overdoses bc he prescribed the drugs? Have you discussed about overdoses? If he does something like this he's not good at the job anyways maybe you can find another therapist who's more competent

 

[UpandDownPrincess]

He's not really dumping you. He's sending you on because he's not helping you.

It is unethical to keep seeing a patient knowing that you are not helping them and may be contributing to their death. If you are continuing to attempt and not telling him, then he is not helping you. By higher care, he means someone who can help you, possibly someone who has experience with people who are flagrantly suicidal or perhaps to a unit.

If you are unsure where to go, I usually suggest trying an outpatient program. They are much better than a locked unit and might even be helpful.

 

[DreamSurfer]

This same thing happened to me. I didn't attempt to ctb but was too high a risk for the care she felt that she could offer.

The reality of part of it that many of you are either overlooking or maybe not informed about, is if any of us ctb while under care, it is bad. By you doing this, you cause a freeze of their license which may effect many many other people that also need care. While they are invested. They can also have their license revoked. And in the US it can take a month or 2 before they can hopefully have their license back.

By you attempting this without telling him, you betrayed his trust in you. He is there to help you and you need to tell your therapist when you are at your lowest.

Maybe some of you don't care but I personally wouldn't want to ruin it for the many other people that also are relying on mental healthcare. Unfortunately, depending how serious we are deemed as a suicide risk, a regular therapist will have serious concern taking you in for care. Unless you can prove that you won't try and do what OP did, risking their entire means of income, reputation, and license.

 

[conflagration]

I guess higher care means some closed facility where you won't be able to overdose.