JP>  Until we start making things happen under more stringent regulations the 
g
JP> old family doc will still be looked to (and trusted) to make these 
knee-jer
JP> decisions. David was prescribed as ADD, then ADHD, then paranoid 
schozo(you
JP> spell the rest ) by a pill pusher. (psych) A few minutes with a much 
mor
JP> experienced psych and it was dyslexia and psychosis, unspecified which he 
M
JP> grow out of. (beaten and eventually ignored by his biological father)  
Sounds like a familiar tale.
I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder by one shrink, (nice 
catch-all for "she's messed up but we're not sure how") bipolar by another, 
and when I went back to the one that decided I was bipolar with the idea of 
being evaluated for ADHD, I walked out fifteen minutes later with a 
prescription. This disturbed me to no end.
I found a shrink who actually did an evaluation and gave me several pages of 
techniques designed to cope with ADHD as well as instructions to keep him 
updated on how it was working for me and an appointment for the following 
week. Despite his thoroughness, he told me that he didn't have a lot of 
experience with ADHD patients and that he would want to keep in close touch 
o
he could learn from my experiences with treatment and non-pharmaceutical 
techniques.
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Out of the dozen or so that I've had, this guy was the ONLY ONE who came 
lose
to doing what I consider to be a psychiatrists basic job description.
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