Psychiatrists, How Do You Tell When Patients Are Not Doing Well? | Professionals Stories #76

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[elisesteingruebl]

A red flag for me is when I start to delve way too deep into fictional worlds and not focus on *anything* going on in my real life so yeah. Depression and anxiety are incredibly hard.

[LadyNikitaShark]

I worked as an housemaid for a psychiatrist that was also the director of the local mental hospital/prison (they were 2 separated buildings). One morning I was cleaning the house and the family was supposed to all of them out, I heard my boss entering the house, fall to the floor and started crying. I tryed to help her and ask what had happened. She was attacked by one of the in mates in the prison side of the hospital. I told her that I would never be capable of doing her job and she responded that some days she wonders if she could keep going. As a mental patient my self she helped me a lot and she was very good at her job but it taked a toll on her. I just want to say thanks to all mental health workers that care about your patients and please, please, also take care of your own mental health.

[the_rat_kingg]

I've been diagnosed with schizophrenia. For age's i thought i was pretending and it was normal. People kept telling me i was unwell I didn't believe them. I got put on medication and thinking back i was unwell im so grateful I'm on medication it saved my life. Take ur meds.

[impossiblegrl]

I keep putting off making an appointment. Either I'm in a bad mindset and don't have the energy or else I'm doing good and don't think I need it. Honestly though, after watching this, gives me the incentive to make it now that I'm feeling better

[chrisallen]

Realizing that suicidal thoughts happen so often they no longer surprise or phase me was my indication that I should probably be in therapy

[TheUselessbuthappy]

I have a long history with mental illness... This video is making me realize I'm not doing ok currently... so thanks for making me realize I need to start talking to someone again...

[katalyst]

"You cant be a therapist to your friends of family" I feel like this is something a lot of us need to hear more often.

My sister has a lot of mental issues (she refuses to get diagnosed so we dont know what she has) but she has bouts of suicidal behavior. She has told me before that it is often a ploy to get my parents to listen to her and gets mad when I call the police to do a wellness check on her.

I do everything I can to help her out but at the end of the day, she refuses to get help and wants me to talk her down from suicide all the time and I just cant.

If any of you out there do this to your friends or family please stop. Get some real and professional help. We can only take so much

[katalyst]

I have BPD and married. My husband knew about my BPD long before we got together. He knows that I will randomly cry sometimes with no apparent cause. My therapist says that I am a remarkable patient because I have an extreme amount of self awareness so I know which episodes are BPD related and I can warn him before they hit hard.

Honestly that's the key with any illness, physical or mental. You just need to be aware. A lot of the stigma from BPD comes from those who arent treated or refuse treatment. As long as you are seeking help, youre doing just fine.

Keep your head up. It'll be okay

[victorianewborn]

I was trying to get treatment for an eating disorder (complex binge eating) at our first consultation appointment the dr told me a the beginning of the session that it was going to be the hardest because we had to talk about my past. She asked alot of really hard questions about my past and mental health. At the end she said she was going to refuse me service and refer me to a trauma clinic and that it scared her how I was able to talk about my really terrible past with such a calm lighthearted demener. That's when I realized how fucked my life really was. What a dr tells you they are scared of you when they specialize in mental health, that is a very solem moment. I knew everyone went through issues but I guess I never realized how bad my childhood and life was until she told me.

[alexlibby]

Lol at the “psychiatrist who don’t talk with and meet with their patients monthly are rare”
In my area they only have a televisits and it’s never more than 15 minutes
Just a
“Hey are we feeling? Are you ok with your current medicine”
Me - tries discussing feelings and worsening symptoms I want advice on
“Ok let’s double this and put you on this and see how you feel in a few weeks”
All done.

[Leelz]

Wow these are so sad. I have depression and I'm doing okay, but getting worse is always in the back of my mind.

[TsukiNaito]

I have had anhedonia for YEARS and it is my most persistent and despised depression symptom. How do I fill my time if I have interest in nothing? I used to read for hours a day, now I force myself to out of some notion I should try to keep learning throughout my life. I want to be a writer, but how do I write when my brain suddenly thinks imagination is too exhausting? I tend to just end up playing video games that suck all my attention--AND have the tv going to take care of any leftover attention--so I can forget about my unprompted anxiety. 👍🏻

[JoJohXD]

I have BPD too, it's nice to see that I can have hope to find someone to live happy ever after

[marlenesamuels]

When I was in the ER last October to get admitted to the psych hospital, talking to the psychiatrist, after telling him a few things I was dealing with he was shocked and amazed that I hadn’t been put on meds yet. Then I got admitted to the psych hospital for two weeks lmao

[abbysworld]

3:44 is so true, and I’ve heard this a bunch of times that even when you start feeling better, you shouldn’t stop therapy because you will get back to a really bad place again eventually, specifically if you’re in therapy for a mental illness because there are good days and there are bad days, so it’s definitely best to schedule further appointments when you are feeling better cuz you will have a harder time if you get in a bad place again, especially if on bad days you have a hard time doing stuff which is me on my bad days

[mikearisbrocken]

Ok, probably I do need therapy. Reading about so many people who think "others have it worse, probably I'll be taking the spot of someone who actually needs it", realizing that probably I have anhedonia, the strong thought of giving away personal stuff, thinking "probably I'm over reacting, probably I don't need therapy"....

[panthercat]

Wow. I can't even get a doc to call me back, let alone have an experience.

[toucan_cultist]

All I've taken from this is I need help
Damn shame I can't afford it :/

[Angel-uoyi]

Im not the psychiatrist but the patient
But my psychiatrist got extremely worried when i listed a bunch of trauma(🙄)
I had experienced throughout my life
He was even more surprised when i said it was normal imo

[neptunegrl]

Sometimes being hospitalized comes in handy later in like you're 30s or 40s though if you struggle with any panic episodes or have mood swings, or experienced any homelessness.

The first story is totally relatable because I had a suicidal history too but if you date a girl like this just be patient with her it's a very common disorder for women to develop and if you mix two people with psych conditions together as a couple just be cautious sometimes the relationship can be frustrating because if they both need help and struggle working it doesn't always mesh well unless you have known them for awhile and you both managed to find a place.

I think if you are diagnosed with at least 3 or more conditions though that's how you can get approved for social security. So it does have a few upsides to it because if the other partner is on it they can refer you.