Have you been instructed to see a psychiatrist?

[paddel]

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone here has been instructed by an md to go to a psychiatrist? Have you been told that you have delusions and need to talk antipsychotic meds. How should you proceed to talk to a psychiatrist without being taken as a mentally ill person.

paddel

[Franky]

Hi Paddel, my friend who was/is? sick (for all the new people here, the whole reason i opened this site a couple of years ago, as I am not sick but my very close friend at the time is) was asked several times to go to a psychiatrist.

In fact most of his family that he shared this info with, said the same thing to him. This is a common suggestion with MDs as well, but there are some in the medical community starting to come around and trying to help.

[Enviro Girl]

If there would someday be a development into DOP activity that would benefit a lot of Morgies and someone needed to advertise - is there a link here I can pass on?

Thanks!,

[KiraErikson]

My original HMO doctor thought something was wrong but didn't know how to treat it. At that time I had an infection on the back of my head that was causing me to lose hair quickly. She sent me to a physician's assistant to a dermatologist, who also tried to figure out how to treat my situation.

I then began developing lesions elsewhere on my body and the HMO dermatologist finally deigned to see me (six weeks later). He told me I was mistaken that I had a problem as my real problem was nerves and getting older. He used a microscope to examine the "bugs" I had pulled from my skin. He told me I was pulling up my own skin. I told him the bugs were hard to see with a microscope (even the CDC has admitted to having a problem) and that they used my skin to make their shells.

At this point in time, I knew I had Morgellons. I told the dermatologist this and what medication I desperately needed immediately. He gave me one dose and then told the other HMO doctors I was cured and put that in my permanent record.

A couple of months later, when most of my beautiful hair was ruined and I had skin lesions that had disfigured my face and body (including a breast), I returned to my original female HMO doctor. She knew she'd screwed up and immediately sent me to the HMO infectious disease specialist.

This infectious disease specialist was an a-hole who was highly intelligent. I had dealt with him a few years earlier when I begged for antibiotics and he refused to give me any. I then became very ill and had to see a private doctor (after collapsing at work). This time the a-hole (who I doubt recalled what he'd done to me the last time when I cried and begged years earlier for antibiotics and only got insulted for my ethnicity in return), told me I was self inflicting my sores. He then got on the phone and called all HMO doctors who treated me and told them I was a very sick girl and needed to be committed.

I was sent a couple of letters to show up for a shrink appt. My HMO assured me I would die of my lesions if I did not accept their medical help. I was terrified. I hid in my apt. and lost most of my very long term friends (two of which went back over 20 years and who had seen me through all sorts of weird and tragic stuff). My family turned against me. I couldn't work.

Thanks to this website I got the drugs I needed at Magicpharma.com. I immediately began improving and (at least outwardly) am 95% cured after 10 months (but hair growth will take a while). I didn't need to get this sick.

My recommendation is to never see a shrink. You can't win. They will then say you saw a shrink and the shrink did a proper evaluation, so it can be said without a doubt that you are crazy. If you never show up for the shrink eval, they can never say for certain you need to be committed.

I went back and spent thousands of dollars (my life savings) to see an old private doctor who thankfully stood by me and has come up with other ways to help treat me. He wrote the HMO that I was perfectly sane and extremely intelligent and emotionally well balanced -- and that I probably had just exactly what I thought I had.

I recommend you get letters from any doctor or friend you can stating this.

So then I went back to the HMO doctor to save money on prescriptions. This time the head of the HMO clinic treated me herself. I told her about Morgellons. She questioned the sanity of the doctor who had vouched for me. I showed her his credentials showing he is from a top medical school in this country. She shrugged her shoulders. I told her I adored her for being willing to accept that maybe I wasn't crazy and there was a new disease out there. I really was very very grateful to her for just listening and admitting that maybe there was something she didn't know.

Dr. Bradley Friedman on Pico Blvd. in West Los Angeles is the private doctor who is willing to accept that Morgellons is real and try aggressive ways to treat it.

Oddly enough, my insurance company was much more accepting that I might have Morgellons. They gave me no problem about treating the disease and their rep listened patiently and sympathetically -- and also checked the CDC website about it.

So, moral of the story -- when they plan to send you to a shrink, they have already preselected the shrink they know will call you crazy (my HMO doc even complained about having to find just the right shrink to diagnose me -- this appeared to be the marching orders she got from the a-hole HMO doc). You will not win if you go to a shrink preselected for you. Get affidavits from other authorities first -- then a shrink will be more afraid of making a bad diagnosis. Also, download lots of info from the internet. Keep in mind this is a very strange disease and it is very easy to dismiss people as delusional -- or even as suffering from having poor cleanliness habits, or from the wrath of God (as my best friend of 23 years accused me -- she said she must accuse me or have a nervous breakdown at what had happened to me as it didn't fit her understanding of her loving Christian god -- sadly, I think she has also contracted Morgellons and as she is older and on disability, I believe it's started to affect her brain -- I also think my other old girlfriend (since High School days) has been seriously affected by Morgellons -- all her hair has fallen out and she's had surgeries for pain in her ribs that can't be diagnosed, the doctors only know the bone matter looks strange but isn't cancer.

I must warn you, there appears to be a conspiracy out there to treat people who claim they had this disease as mental patients. This is to shut you up so the culprits causing the problem won't be fingered. My a-hole doctor told me he knew all about Morgellons. His dermatologist assoc. newsletter had warned him he'd start getting crazy patients like me and some of his other patients who also thought they had Morgellons. He was very evil and hostile. It was truly strange.

[Enviro Girl]

Hey Kira!

Ya wouldn't have a copy of that dermatology newsletter or know the source, would ya? That would be real interesting to read...

[paddel]

Everything a psych says is without factual basis, since psychiatry is devoid of any science.
It will be interesting to see what happens to say the least. Write down any highlights though.

paddel

[Bee]

No, but I did tell my Derm that I thought he must be the wrong kind of Dr.
and that I needed a Vet.

[Baraka Obam]

If people stop telling the doctors they have bugs and itching. JUST SAY I AM ITCHY ALL OVER OR IN MY EARS

If you do not mention the BUGS you can not see, Oh doctor but I have a mutilated bug eye and wing looking thing, and and and there are bugs in my home!!!!!! I see little black things and they must be bugs and evil because they are the color of evil, BLACK!!!! If you just say you are itching then how can they say you have DOP
Delusions of parasites

[kckc]

I was referred to psych, before I even knew the word 'm'. I have kaiser, its a different kind of set up. I don't think the Medical Md's respect the psych MD's anyways? And I was willing to accept that I was a loon, just to make it stop.
It really wasn't that bad, I got to vent, and they had to listen. You can even get the prescriptions filled and not take take them,
When I did find out about 'm', I went back one more time, and told them "In your face!" not really ha
I told my psychologist about it, and asked him " If I am really 'crazy', or 'mentally ill', why am I allowed to be able to interact with the public, why am I ok enough to goto work, care for my family...drive? Why am I considered 'mentally ill' by my primary, because I feel sick, but am expected to carry on publicly as if I weren't?, If I am 'mentally ill, then put me on disability, I want to get paid! "
We talked about morg, I gave him some web sites, and he told me that I'm not 'mentally ill', that I am able to reason, and speak rationally, and for me not to give up, and continue speaking up to the dr.'s. The infectious disease dr., I agree with Kira, was the worst.
I feel if you don't have any body to talk to, and this thing does create severe depression, talk to someone. If your primary already thinks your 'mentally ill' its already in your medical record. They will make damn sure of that, cuz heaven forbid, there's something they don't know. In the end the truth's gonna come out, and all these people are going to eat dirt. We have to keep pressing forward, and sometimes , 'you gotta do, what you gotta do.'
Hope that helps a little.,
Love and Blessings, kc

[Baraka Obam]

Proper etiqute what is THAT I do not know about you and my post did not pertain to anyone special, Too many people go in and start screaming bugs. The doctor don't see any, then he assumes they are crazy.If a doctor find you crazy and writes it down, there is things you can do, SUE HIM as soon as the cause of morgellons come clear.

Don't be so sensative Paul nothing was sent your way, it was for the people that go to the doctor screaming bugs. It is a warning to those that would, big letters ARE appropriate. I am on your side.