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Psychiatrist told me the only reason they wouldn’t prescribe anything for my very physical and debilitating panic attacks is bc “if the day of reckoning comes, how will u get ur medicine?”… 😀
129 upvotes, 42 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Neurodivergent. "Psychiatrist told me the only reason they wouldn’t prescribe anything for my very physical and debilitating panic attacks is bc “if the day of reckoning comes, how will u get ur medicine?”… 😀"
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Anonymous 1d

get a different psychiatrist asap

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Anonymous 1d

Like…. The fucking RAPTURE?!?!?!?!? Get a new psychiatrist if you’re able PLEASE😭😭😭😭

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Anonymous 1d

holy shit that’s a major reportable moment

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Anonymous 1d

sounds like they should prescribe an extra month’s supply just in case? how is that an argument for *not* giving you the meds lol

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Anonymous 1d

Wtaf

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Anonymous 1d

if the rapture comes i think youve got bigger fish to fry than medicine 😭

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Anonymous 1d

Are they denying meds to all their patients then?

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Anonymous 1d

least cartoonishly evil psychiatrist:

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Anonymous 1d

OP here's a QR code i just made that links to a website with reporting info. this is so insane i'm sorry 😭

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Anonymous 1d

what😭

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Anonymous 13h

You need to work through the roots of your anxiety and panic. Numbing it with drugs only gives relief, not healing

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

Literally right after that they asked if I had any delusions bc apparently a lot of their clients have been having unexplained delusions of the rapture coming soon… I THINK I MIGHT KNOW WHY

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

There’s a CVS in front of my apt building and I said I’d just raid them if the world ends but the psych said “nooo nooo you wouldn’t do that”… if the world is ending I feel like all bets are off tbh

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 1d

THATS WHAT IM SAYING

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1d

I hope not cause they said a lot of their patients have been having unexplained delusions about the world ending… 😞 (key word: unexplained)

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1d

Wait who can I report to cause I genuinely was so speechless it was such a switch up and the other things they said were crazy

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

every licensed psychiatrist is certified by the board of psychiatrists. find the website & report them there

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 1d

(this is bc you can't make clickable links in comments, ss this and you can hold on the image to go to the site)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

Look up if there’s a patient advocacy hotline for the health company they are affiliated with

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 1d

Makes me wonder if they might be doing something that could start the end of the world… 🧐

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 11h

1. You can’t work through anxiety if you’re having crippling panic attacks that you can’t predict 2. For some people, panic attacks are genetic or due to a chemical imbalance and the only treatment that works is medication

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 10h

So unfortunately these panic attacks have stemmed from me having both pneumonia and Covid at the same time and now having to very consciously breathe or else I can’t get enough air in a single breath 🤗

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 9h

Bullshit you cant I had panic attacks every day for 8 years. Don't tell me what you can't do. Fuck your learned helplessness

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9h

I'm sorry you dealt with that. The panic is still psychosomatic and something you must engage to work on.

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 9h

Fuck your lack of empathy. Just because you got through it doesn’t mean everyone can

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 8h

Everyone can.

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 5h

Obviously not. And with your lack of empathy, clearly you still need to work on things yourself

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 4h

“Learned helplessness” you aren’t even educated on medication bro stfu😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3h

Right, the empathetic thing is to treat people as weaklings to be left stuck in prisons of their minds and throw pills at them. Amazing work doc

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 3h

Empathy is seeing someone struggling and not saying “try harder, idiot”

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 3h

This is very very helpful tysm!! Now im wondering how many of their other patients have reported them too 🫣

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3h

1) Empathy is foremost more about helping someone more than preserving their feelings 2) Telling someone that their situation can be better improved with work than medicine, when true, is the empathetic choice even if you dont want to hear it 3) It is not empathetic to recommend care regimens that treat people as helpless or weak and keep them stuck in their cycle 4) Nobody said that, idiot

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 2h

As someone actually on antidepressants this is complete bullshit btw

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2h

Empathy is attempting to understand someone else’s feelings from their perspective. Not forcing your own anti medicine beliefs on them because you think that they don’t work despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Literally stfu.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2h

Believe whatever nonsense you want but therapeutic intervention is the only clinically proven effective long-term solution to panic disorder, not medication, which at best provides short term relief

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 2h

I doubt anyone here is saying that therapy doesn’t work. But short term relief isn’t bad. Short term relief helps you manage things enough for a period of time so you’re capable of organizing long term solutions. Also like tbh I don’t know if that’s even correct like anxiety meds don’t have a time limit generally speaking.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1h

It is correct: many studies have shown that long term blended results with medication + therapy either have no statistical long term effect difference from therapeutic intervention alone, or worse results, because the patient becomes dependent on medication instead of -doing the work-

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 1h

Dawg this is some RFK type shit talking about banning antidepressants cause people need them to function (literally the whole point of them) I swear to fucking Christ. Protestant work for the sake of work ethic type garbage.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1h

Unfortunately for you we do not yet have a pill to fix reading comprehension

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 1h

dude if you politely brought up therapy this would be completely fine, but no, you had to suggest everyone who takes meds is a helpless failure. why did this need to be so argumentative? Just chill out. Meds help some people and other courses of action are best for others. Don’t pretend like your personal experience is universal.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1h

I actually never said anything close to that and my frankness comes from a lack of patience and respect for the ridiculous fragility often displayed by this community

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 34m

you know you can just like, not engage with it if you don’t like it, right?

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