Thursday, May 10, 2007

passing the buck

Somehow, it's not exactly encouraging when your prescribing doctor says you need more therapy, while your therapist says you need more medication. Just, you know, hypothetically speaking.

7 comments:

Magpie said...

Maybe they need to talk to one another?

S. said...

Is this treatment helping you? I mean, over the long view--this particular impasse is obviously not helping.

If the answer is no, I say choose one and fire away. That is my professional opinion as a certified bookseller.

niobe said...

What a great idea, Magpie. One of those things that seems totally obvious in retrospect, but it just didn't occur to me. I'm going to call them now.

S. The answer to your question is I just don't know. Which, might actually be equivalent to no.

Unknown said...

It may be that the change you need is not quantity but quality. Different meds, or a better-listening MD, or a different therapist. That doesn't have to be a diss of the therapist, by the way. Sometimes we move on to a point where we need something different, even if it seems we're stuck instead.
Good plan to get them talking to each other, no matter how it turns out.

That Mommy said...

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S. said...

I'm working on a post about switching therapists, so that's where my completely unbiased and omni-benevolent advice is coming from. I'm finding that the decision to switch is itself therapeutic.

It doesn't have to be transference. It can just be a bad fit.

Doughnut said...

Nothing like being the "go between" a doctor and a therapist. Is that what they call coordination of benefits or "we have a failure to communicate"?