Posted by emmanuel98 on November 11, 2012, at 20:00:58
In reply to Re: Idea 4 Mental Health Prof. Training » emmanuel98, posted by sleepygirl2 on November 11, 2012, at 18:43:34
I don't mean to judge. It's just, if you read this board for a while, and I've been reading this board for a few years, you'd think all mental health professionals were uncaring, incompetent charlatans who pushed dangerous drugs, of which they understood nothing, on unwitting patients. I've seen threads over and over again which portray inpatient hospitals as snake pits.
That's not been my experience. I refrain from writing on this board, because of the intense hostility to mental health providers. I have been inpatient several times and have never had anything but a wonderful experience, with caring and capable nurses, social workers, p-docs. My own p-doc and DBT therapist are wonderful and would never treat me callously or just throw drugs at me without concern about the effects.
I'm sure many other people have had bad experiences, but on this board, many may people denigrate providers, portraying them as evil, uncaring, self-interested, money-grubbing, unethical cads.
To write on here that I've experienced p-docs as mostly wonderful and caring, that they make nothing compared to other specialties -- I definitely feel like a voice in the wilderness.
> There are a lot of caring, competent, great mental health professionals, and I've met a lot of them.
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> And.... I've met some real schmucks.
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> One doesn't cancel the other. I sort of feel judged by you, emmanuel.
> People's experiences, good and bad, are valid.
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