Posted by Racer on March 2, 2005, at 15:01:30
OK, y'all remember the Agency from Hell? And Dr EyeCandy? And The Therapist From The Black Lagoon? ("Swamp Thing" to her friends, no doubt...)
I'm working on drafting the complaints to their licensing boards, and it's so drattedly hard! It's bringing up a lot of fierce stresses for me, but they're no longer the whole "I must be *wrong*" stuff. Now it's the whole "I'm right, but who's going to believe a psychiatric patient versus a mental health practitioner?"
That's an improvement, of course.
I'm reminding myself of Facts, such as the FACT that I went from about 145# to about 95# and it didn't show up on anyone's radar there. That is a Fact. It cannot really be disputed -- even if someone says that I don't have proof that I went to a specific weight, there is proof of what I weighed in the hospital just before he started treating me, and there is proof from the doctors I saw last autumn of what I weighed then. Maybe it doesn't show my lowest weight, but it does still show that I lost roughly a third of my weight, and there is no mention of any weight related issue in my chart. And, of course, I'm getting treated now for Anorexia Nervosa, which one wouldn't expect to "catch" overnight.
Still, I find myself getting bogged down by the whole, "How can I write this so that someone reading it will not automatically thing I'm just nuts? How can I present these facts so that someone reading them will see it as worth investigating?"
And it's sucking me dry...
That's an update on me. How's everyone else?
poster:Racer
thread:465518
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