-=> Quoting Kalera Ashley to John Pummill <=-03-02-98  08:54
 KA> I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder by one shrink,
 KA> (nice  catch-all for "she's messed up but we're not sure how") bipolar
 KA> by another,  and when I went back to the one that decided I was bipolar
 KA> with the idea of  being evaluated for ADHD, I walked out fifteen
 KA> minutes later with a  prescription. This disturbed me to no end.
 It's almost creepy how similar this is to my own experience
 KA> I found a shrink who actually did an evaluation and gave me several
 KA> pages of  techniques designed to cope with ADHD as well as instructions
 KA> to keep him  updated on how it was working for me and an appointment
 KA> for the following  week. Despite his thoroughness, he told me that he
 KA> didn't have a lot of  experience with ADHD patients and that he would
 KA> want to keep in close touch so he could learn from my experiences with
 KA> treatment and non-pharmaceutical  techniques.
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 KA> * Out of the dozen or so that I've had, this guy was the ONLY ONE who
 KA> came close to doing what I consider to be a psychiatrists basic job
 KA> description. 
 KA> -!- GEcho 1.00
 KA>  ! Origin: (1:105/215)
 There IS some comfort in hearing I'm not the only one who's having this
  experience with "health care providers". Thanks for sharing.  
... if you can in this life help others, if you can't don't hurt them
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