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23 Oct 2007, 4:03 pm

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I was referred to a "psychiatrist" to do an evaluation or whatever. I thought she was going to diagnose me. Instead she saw me for two sessions and then sent out a report to my doc and then wrote down pretty much everything I told her plus some lies like how I cut myself with a knife once(razor) etc etc.

I'm applying for disability and I'm supposed to submit the application today. But looking at the BS she has on the report makes me not want to submit it. Again maybe that is my paranoia but this report seems so stupid. Should I submit it anyway or wait for few more months to see another psychiatrist and apply again? Is this normal for psychiatrists to be so full of sh**.


I am applying for ssi and I cant afford to have my own doctor i got no insurance and stuff so the ssi office sent me to a doctor to evaluate me and he asked me abunch of questions about fruit and numbers and voices and to remember stuff and i didn tlike it i didn tknow him.



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23 Oct 2007, 4:38 pm

nannarob wrote:
ZARATHUSTRA wrote:
Unfortunately shrinks are a very variable quantity. (if you are in the UK), talk to your GP about what happened and see if you can get sent for a second opinion, with a letter from them outlining your concerns. You could also try talking to one of the many advocacy groups, who'll help you state your case. Dont give up & dont let them get the better of you.


The best way to get a good psychiatrist is to get in touch with an aspergers group for their recommendation. You need someone who understands both for the report and for any counselling you might want.

Good luck

When you apply for disability or even for some specialist treatment centres on the NHS you don't usually get to choose who you see. This person is not working as a clinician or even a diagnostician in this guise. They are working for the local health trust or the government as general civil servants to do with the release or denial of funds.

The psychiatrist that I saw for my Maudsley referral flatly admitted he didn't know anything about Aspergers. Fortunately he was ok and asked me, and even wanted me to come back and give him more information. His report also had lots of errors in it, manly factual such as DOB. I was a bit annoyed, despite the fact that he agreed to it, but my GP just said she would just tell them when it was confirmed.



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23 Oct 2007, 9:11 pm

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When I was trying to get disability for a particularly bad couple of years of depression, Centrelink (Australian Social Security) arranged an assessment interview with a psychologist from the mental health services.

After I told him about how I felt and about my life he asked me if I believed in Demonic Possession!

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He recommended I get out books by this author who writes about demons and demonic influences and that I should read the bible and go to church. Oh, and I shouldn't rule out exorcism as a possible solution.

The one thing he didn't recommend, is that I get any assistance from social security.

There's a BIG difference between a good psychologist/psychiatrist and a total whack job. I'd shop around for someone good.


Wow. That is the most unprofessional behavior I have ever heard of. It's good that you could just shrug that off as quackery. What if someone's mind was in a fragile and vulnerable state and they took that diagnosis to heart. That was an extremely harmful thing to do.

If you think that's bad, examine a previous experience of mine:
Psychiatrist said that I had paranoid schizophrenia because I refused to answer his questions. He forced me to take some psychotropic drugs, risking my brain physiology, all because of his own ineptitude to diagnose me properly! I should sue the motherf---er.


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