I just saw my new psychiatrist this morning, who the psychiatry Department has assigned to help me with emotional problems, the 3rd psych professional on my team. Did I mention I have a few unresolved problems? Just keeping up with appointments is going to be problem enough.
This one is for helping me deal with emotion and feelings in the current sense and help me relate better with other people, and myself as well.
I liked this guy, he comes in as he is invited, not just barge in and start catagorising. I was told by Dea in Redwood that the new one would be knowledable in gender identity issues, but would be primarily into emotional health, and that seems to be just the case. We spent some time with him asking some questions and listening patiently to my responses and he dug around a little following up some of those responses, but his questions were very different from those by the other two. He was more interested in how I felt toward other people and toward myself regarding my reactions to them. He asked me about stress and was I doing anything for it. No I was just attempting to handle it by objective reasoning and it was beginning to be a losing battle.
He played around a bit, quite obviously looking for some buttons and triggers, finding a few of the more interesting, and then suggested altering my mood a bit, to make it easier to work with things. He ended up perscribing something called Bupropion, told me it would take awhile to achieve full effect, but would make me feel more at ease, more energetic and hopefully, happier and set our next appointment.
All in all, I felt positive about this new therapyst and he seemed right on the mark during his exploration and I liked him because he found some of it humorus despite my rather sober mood at the time and didn't professionally conceil it, which was the right approach with me. I think we are going to get along.
Terri
