Posted by mtdewcmu on April 13, 2011, at 22:46:57
In reply to Re: Scolds on other psychiatry boards » mtdewcmu, posted by sleepygirl2 on April 13, 2011, at 21:26:35
> I too believe that lithium and lamictal are possibly redundant!!Yeah. Obviously that's beside the point. I would not stake my life on that statement, it was just idle thinking out loud.
I can sort of see why they are super-cautious over there, seeing as how they have a lot of bipolars and schizophrenics (and combinations of the two) and some of them might be highly suggestible and stop their meds, wind up psychotic, and get themselves killed. Dr Bob's seems to attract mostly treatment-resistant depressives, who have been around psychiatry a while, and are likely not going to stop a med on some stranger's advice, have a symptom, and commit suicide. But this girl stated that she was a treatment-resistant depressive who was having side effects and was considering dumping her pdoc because he/she would not listen to her concerns. So I stand by my post. And I can't deal with a site that is run like some kind of Soviet gulag.
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