My psych intern suuuucked today

[mtfbuckeye]

This is also on my humble little blog, but seemed relevant enough to post here too...

You know how sometimes you go to Best Buy, and you ask for help... and it becomes immediately clear that you know WAYYY more about what you are interested in than they do?

Welcome to my therapy appointment today. Wheee!

I don't mind that I saw an intern. I know Head Shrinkers gotta start somewhere, and I'm a pretty agreeable test subject. What bothered me was when she refused to read the letter I wrote to my Mom. I brought a copy, because I thought it would be an efficient way to bring her up to speed, but she wanted me to talk about it instead. What did that mean? A lot of me saying "as I say in that letter..." Plus, her asking me grade-school questions about trans stuff. Ugh.

Bottom line? She ends up saying "you look really anxious and depressed... here, let's quadruple your effexor dosage!" She wants me to go from 37.5 mg a day to 150 mg over the next two weeks... I'll try it, but I'm skeptical. Here's the capper: She says she'll call in the script, and 30 minutes later I show up to pick up my drugs. Did they get a call? A fax? Nothing. Then, when I call the doctor's office, they're closed.

Yeah, that appointment two weeks from now is gonna go real smooth, huh?

[Mister]

This is why I refuse appointments with interns.  If someone isn't licensed, they're not taking my cash for it.

An intern is NOT QUALIFIED to mess with your meds.  At all.  Ever.

[Renate]

I go to an MSW intern now after having been to the head MSW therapist once.
I have no complaints, I am getting as much from the intern as I could possibly get from the head therapist.
Ok, it does help that my intern is an FTM, he does have a clue about this all.
With the sliding scale that the intern has, I am saving a lot of money.

[KarenLyn]

You should bring your concerns to the chief of the department or the department manager. If they aren't aware of a problem, it will never get fixed. I work in a nephrology clinic and we terminated a doctor due to numerous complaints.

Karen Lyn

[Mister]

Just to be clear, I think her supervisor actually made the call on changing my meds.. FWIW.

Which seems crazy w/o having met you, IMHO.

[Dana_W]

Umm... Just trying to catch up here... You ARE in the process of looking for a more suitable permanent therapist and this is just making due until that time, yes? I thought I remembered a previous thread where you were looking for another. In which case... are you sure these kind of appointments are doing you more good than harm? Seriously.