STEPHEN FRY

X-D "slap him" ..that was not my first thought, but almost!
My thought was:
terrorise him! (now, that does not sound good, but listen)
Tell him, tell him again, keep telling him until something happens. He must belive you at some point. He should be able to tell from only meeting you, but you said he was a wanker so..
Sorry, nothing else comes to mind.
If all else fails; slap him!

Be your manic self, talk his ear off and don't let him get a word in. If all else fails pull a Tom Cruise and jump on the couch. Think about how funny the look on his face will be and just go manic on him. Be real and let him get a reality check. I talk to my therapist a mile a minute if I'm on a cloud.

I was watching an old film from the 50's(don't know the name it was on at mom and dad's) and it seemed like every other scene had a woman slapping a man that stepped out of bounds. What happened to that? There is entirely too little slapping going on these days. Sometimes a good whack across the gob is exactly what a wanker like him needs.

So I agree, slap his wank ass! If all else fails of course.

in french films, the guys do it to the guys.

X-D I've gotta see that!

No more about slapping!!!!!!!!!!!!

KSx

Ok fine! I'll go find my own Dr Wankville to slap around.

I just got an idea! If you have a video or audio recorder of any kind you could record a conversation with someone(or alone) where you're talking a mile a minute. That might help when you go and find that you can't talk to him.

You know what, I think I will be able to talk to Dr Wanky. Blah, blah, blah. No problem.

KSx

I'm sorry katysara, I get... silly. sometimes when i shouldn't.

i really don't know how to deal with those situations. in my own life, i'm undiagnosed (and i say that all the time, because i feel wierd posting this stuff... maybe i'm talking total crap) but the things that i tried to tell someone about were

:laughing that was hard to stop and didn't really match up with whatever i thought was funny

:drinking more, smoking more

:i rhyme words. or say words with the same amount of stressed and unstressed syllables, really quickly. when normally, it's hard for me to think of words at all.

there have been times when i haven't slept for 3 days. or i exercised for HOURS just to get tired.

but YOU know the symptoms well, you know more about this than i do. maybe you have to phrase things so that they match the criteria? a doctor who is lazy might just be listening for the words in the manual.

i also get wierd feelings regularly that are hard to explain. eveything feels synchronistic and the ground feels like it's moving occasionally. but i doubt that's on any doctors list of "symptoms".

good luck. hope to hear back about the visit soon!

wow.... thanks for that first paragraph there. that makes me feel more comfortable being on here.

i WILL get things worked out... might take a while.

i'm so sorry about your dr. is there any one beyond him you can go to? i know you are expecting someone else in a few months... anyone else you can go to NOW?

Hello

Pardon me for sticking my oar in, but I think YOU have to take control of the situation and TELL the doctor what you want.

I don't mean to be obnoxious, but this is a particular sore point for me. I used to make the mistake of telling my doctor what I felt, and trusting him/her to sort me out. Through bitter experience I have learned that this course of action is a HUGE mistake (I almost died of pneumonia once, having been diagnosed as having a cold).

I was in my early-mid twenties when I first approached my GP with (what I now know are) symptoms of clinical depression (of whatever kind). I was told there was nothing wrong with me: "Get a new job!" Unfortunately, I accepted this advice, and for more than 15 years lived, on and off, in a fog, in a black pit, underwater, etc...alternating with periods of extreme adventure (and occasional recklessness) and high energy. I reached my 40's before I saw Stephen Fry's programme, and a little bell started ringing in my head; suddenly a whole load of things made sense. I informed my GP in no uncertain terms what was going on, and got a referral to a psychiatrist. I was equally assertive with this doctor, and found myself taken very seriously. Three months later, I am a different person. No more staring into space for hours at a time. No more underwater existence. No more bitter, twisted, negativity going on in my head. No more ultra-sensitivity and/or paranoia. I might even venture to say I have a modicum of self-esteem finally! I recognise that I'm just starting out on the treatment road, but the effects so far have been incredible.

I'm not trying to hijack your thread, and maybe I should have introduced myself elsewhere, but your original question touched a raw nerve with me. It may be that many doctors are arrogant bastards who think they know it all, or perhaps they become overwhelmed with hearing the same thing over and over and over (they are human, after all...well, most of them). Therefore, in my experience, YOU have to take responsibility for your own treatment, and assert yourself. You have the right to be a complete and utter pain-in-the-butt until you get what you want/need.

I'll admit that I may have the advantage of looking like I could be a bit of an 'orrible sort if provoked - although I'm really not. Do you think you might be able to use that hypomania to assert yourself towards your psychiatrist? Good luck!