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Mrs Jennifer Jinkd's avatar

TRD what about RRD that psychiatry has - Resistance to Reality Disorder. Resistance to behaving ethically and heed the rigours of medical science.

First Psychiatrist use. They use the patients pain, fear, trauma and misfortune to feather their own nests, they use the patients Medicare card like their own private credit card and if in private practice they get the co payment too.

Second the minute patient becomes intellectually suspicious re failed treatments that make them worse, psychiatrists will start accusing patient of paranoia, non compliance and start throwing the DSM numbers around.

Third psychiatrists abuse. Spiteful appointment scheduling. Involuntary treatment orders and then the dismissal - refusing to see patient, not ensuring continuing care with another practitioner. When trouble arises, the psychiatrist will cowardly hide behind the skirts of their office staff. Whose only advise to patient is to present at their local hospital emergency department. Patient and family left without scripts left to detox with no help.

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Carolyn Quadrio's avatar

Thank you, Niall, I agree with you about TRD, it did not exist until recently and in my many years of practice I have never made that diagnosis. These days the chronic refractory cases of depression that I see are invariably on antidepressants and have been for years or decades so it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the treatment is causing the illness. Carolyn

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