Comment on Anon goes to the doctor
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The doctor’s internal monologue: “Oh God it’s one of these assholes who did 10min of googling and reading forums and thinks they know every single thing about medical science. Fuck fuck fuck he won’t shut up I shouldn’t have suggested that. OK, deflect, call him smart and move on that’ll get him to shut up finally”
In this image: Anon doesn’t know how to read subtext
What the doctor said: “It seems you’ve done some research. It’s true that medication often has side effects, but this is not always the case and is often outweighed by the benefits. Let’s set that aside for now, and revisit later.”
What anon heard: “Wow, you avoided my dastardly trap! I’m going to have to be careful around you.”
Or… God dammit, another person seeking to abuse benzos. That’s like half of all new appointments for psychiatry. The minute the patient goes on a rant about SSRI, you can guess where they are directing the conversation to.
this does not surprise me for a 4chan anon
Windex007@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“If I push on this, I will alienate myself from this clearly mentally unstable patient and at that point there is no chance to help them”
It’s literally how mental health professionals are trained.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
De-escalating with mentally troubled people.
Step 1: agree with them
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Step 2: Patient is now the president
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Imagine if someone snuck some therapy pills into the president’s cofifeffifeffee.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t surprise me, and that’s actually quite smart.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
You’re right.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It depends on the reason for their agitation. If they’re having a paranoid moment then you need ti tell them the truth to help them out of it.
If you lie they might pick up on it and that kills the trust they have in you.
You don’t have to press them to take meds they don’t want to take, but if you lie about why you’re stopping (“maybe you’re right”), instead of telling the truth about why you’re stopping (“I don’t want to break our therapeutic connection by pushing you”), it can make things backslide.