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”
Anon goes to the doctor
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Windex007@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
De-escalating with mentally troubled people.
Step 1: agree with them
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Doesn’t surprise me, and that’s actually quite smart.
tiramichu@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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.”
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
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.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
this does not surprise me for a 4chan anon
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 months ago
be me finally a practicing doctor after an eternity of school on my way to the next patient overwhelming stench of B.O. as I open the door try my best to hide my disgust and ask how he’s doing patient goes on a rant about how life is unfair, something about jewish people and 13% just nod along as I pull up his info guy is clearly depressed suggest ssri’s to improve his outlook on life youveactivatedmytrapcard.jpg guy proceeds to spend 20 minutes talking about how he saw a post online saying ssri’s are bad, it’s mind control, and he mentions jewish people again already 5 minutes late for my next patient nod and agree and tell him to have a nice day
Why can’t these people understand I’m just trying to help them?
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
If you wanna use the > things you can do \ then >
>like thisAdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thanks i had no idea lol
Zozano@lemy.lol 5 months ago
Holy shit, I bet you know how to triforce too.
ENLIGHTEN US WIZARD
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 5 months ago
Anon, I’m respectfully advising you to think about this interaction and reflect more on it.
Woht24@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Excellent, politely and respectfully addressing the OP of a post on another site from many years ago.
👍
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 months ago
from many years ago. Post says 9/29/24…
Maalus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, a psychiatrist or a therapist isn’t there to be combative. They are there to make you feel better. If you believe the medication won’t work and you don’t do anything with it, you actually won’t see any difference - even if it actually helps you, you will think “I just had a better day, it’s all”. SSRIs sadly aren’t magic happy pills, but they do help if you let them, provided you don’t have treatment resistant depression (which could also mean you have something else, for which SSRIs aren’t the full solution, at least that was the case for me).
Not a doctor, just an idiot that went through all of it and trying to cope with ADHD. Medicated of course.
halykthered@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Huh, a post on a site usually frequented by lonely edgelords. A site notorious for racism and violence. And this post is what, appealing to temperance? No, of course not. It’s trying to convince the unstabled medicated ones to stop taking their medication.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Oh. What I took from it was “the doctor thinks OP is an idiot”, which is much funnier.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah i take greentexts less as outlets for racism and more of self deprecation lol
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I dont know, they work pretty good for me. Lifes much easier on them
nutsack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
she wanted to present it as an idea and see what you thought about it
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
She agreed because she didn’t want to argue with you. Not because you’re right.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
SSRIs are a fucking shitpost honestly.
Sometimes they just fucking work, sometimes they really don’t, sometimes not feeling suicidal constantly is outweighed by being slightly insane.
Neurology is a fucking mess right now. What a shitpost.
I hope to live to the day where we can stop collectively shrugging our shoulders in response to “why does X happen” in relation to the brain.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
The doctor: “You are right.”
The context:
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shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
This guy is right about one thing: the doc doesn’t give a fuck about this idiot
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 months ago
They’ve got 18 other people to see that day, and most of them probably want help. Might as well go help them.
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Or they know there’s no point trying to rationalize someone out of an opinion they didn’t reason themselves into. Oh, and it’s worthless to prescribe medication for someone who doesn’t want to take it.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Of course they do, they care enough to present what they think will be a successful option. Just cuz they don’t want to get in a fight doesn’t mean they don’t care at all.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I disagree, I think the dog did care but I knew that wasn’t a battle they were going to win so they just conceded and moved on to the next patient.
There’s a saying that you can lead the horse to water but you can’t make them drink and that summarizes the scenario quite well,
if you mentioning a topic spurs the person into a 5 or 10 minute rant about the topic you’re not going to come out on top they already have too firm of an opinion. Just save your energy and help the next guy.
That’s how we were trained in selling merchandise as well, you can give your recommendations but if you say your recommendation and the customer has a firm opinion otherwise, backtrack a little bit and start focusing on the good things that the customers looking for in the product. The only thing pushing the topic further is going to do is going to aggravate them and make them lose faith in your ability to know your merchandise.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 5 months ago
Blue is a huge asshole, but I agree that this is likely what actually happened.