Shrink keeps messing up my meds.

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My shrink keeps making me take things.

In the past few years, she has put me on:

-ritalin
-concerta
-adderall
-risperidone
-seroquel
-xanax
-lorazepam
-klonopin
-wellbutrin
-prozac
-zoloft
-lexapro
-depakote
-tenex


most of these made me go psycho and end up in loony bin or harassing people and beating them up, etc. Many of them made me go weeks without sleep or feel manic, depressed, or suicidal. I keep getting worse every time she changes my meds but she keeps saying i need to be "normal." What should i do?

Were I in your place, I'd have switched to another psychiatrist by now.

Get a different psychiatrist. You can't reason with stupid people.

I'd probably also report her to the AMA, or the APA, or somebody. She's incompetent.

Been there, done that, got the PTSD.

When I told a competent psychiatrist what I'd been through, they didn't believe me. When my husband corroborated my story, their eyes got big and round.

Over two years later, I'm still cleaning up the mess.

The psychiatrist in question is no longer in practice, and facing federal charges of disability fraud.

I've been on eight meds in five years for my bipolar disorder, and I thought that was a lot. You have been on twice as many in half the time.

The doctors always changed my meds pretty soon if there were bad side effects, and there have been side effects. The side effects were the reason the doctors introduced a new medication and weaned me off the wrong medication.

It's not always easy to find the right medication because everyone reacts differently.

However, all of your medications do seem excessive and I can't see how there would be a good rationale for that.

What concerns me is that the communication between doctor and patient is poor, which is often the sign of an incompetent doctor.

The main problem is though that you are still acutely ill after all this time.

See another doctor if you possibly can. If you can't, bring a list of questions to your appointment. You should understand what the doctor's decisions are based on.

I had to try several different meds until I found what worked for me. I had a good relationship with a psychiatrist that I trusted.

But if I ever lose confidence in a doctor, after a reasonable effort at resolving concerns.... I change doctors.

Wow!! That is a lot of different classes of drugs! Alright. Let's see. At the first session, she didn't have much time to talk to you, to find out your personal and other problems, what was actually going on in your head, your history with your family, how you did in school, etc., so she went with her first best guess: ADHD. She put you on stimulants. When those made you a bit whacked out, she put you on antipsychotics. But then the antipsychotics gave you akathisia, so she put you on benzodiazepines. Then she noticed you looked a little down and so considered that a mood disorder might have been the problem, so she gave you antidepressants. They either didn't work or made you whacked out, so she assumed bipolar disorder and put you on a mood stabilizer. After a while, she finally figured maybe you were having problems with trauma or panic, so she put you on the sympatholytic.

That's just my best first guess. Yeah. Effing switch doctors. Jeez.