What is the point of a Psychiatrist?

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I literally see my Psychiatrist for her to ask me how I’m doing about my
Medications and then she prescribes me more. My visit is legit 5min. I never once took my medication because I’m actually dealing with my depression all by myself and getting the help I need without medications . Yes I have depression but you know what? Who wouldn’t if they didn’t go through what I went through? But u know what? I refuse to sit on my ass and cry, I get up, go to therapy, I got myself together and never missed a day of parenting course and exert other step to get my life together. My point is I took control of my life and chose to get better without no damn pills. I hate going to her. All she cares about is the pills and never me as a whole. It’s annoying. Therapy did more for me than pills. Idk why the hell I need a damn Psychiatrist.

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The point is that they can prescribe psychiatric medication?? They're not the same as a psychologist. Also does that mean you just lie to her about taking it or?

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you also seem like you’re not 100% understanding what a PSYCHIATRIST does. psychiatry is a field of medical psychology, they typically write prescriptions for pills, if you’re not looking for that, switch to a psychologist. they will provide you with therapy and they DO NOT prescribe pills.

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Psychiatrists prescribed pills. Therapists give you therapy/counseling. 
If you don’t like taking the pills then stop going to the psychiatrist.

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Stop lying to your psychiatrist. If you don't want to take meds, tell them that and they won't make you make any more appointments. What are you doing with the script? Hoarding them for someone to stumble upon and OD? Flushing them down the toilet and contaminating the water supply or the environment? You're the one causing your problems, not your psychiatrist whose job description is to prescribe psychiatric medications and that's all. Also, just because you got your life together doesn't mean that you're better than someone who DOES sit at home and cry all day. All of our journeys with mental health are different and to compare them just causes harm and prevents people from asking for help.

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Google is your friend and that is actually their job. That is their specialty. I also find this post to be a little shaming and demeaning to the ones who do choose and decide to be on medication. You could have chose better wording and gotten your same point across.

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As others said, it’s the Psychiatrists job to manage prescriptions. When I was on Celexa my therapist talked with me about my life and helped me learn to respond better to things, and I saw a Psychiatrist to talk about my specific experience with the medication, including when I was ready to stop taking it. 
If you’re not taking the medication then you should be honest that you aren’t and this is something you truly feel you don’t need or want. It’s not what you believe in for yourself.

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That’s what a psychiatrist is supposed to do... if you don’t feel it’s beneficial then so going?

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Wow!!!  This post is the best comment I’ve ever heard on here.  Please continue to advocate for yourself￼￼.  See a naturopathic doctor; they don’t work for psychopharmaceuticals companies to help sell their drugs.  Simple supplements will fix the problem.  I am an advocate for mental health.  You can look at some of my posts and get ideas for self-treatment.￼￼￼

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She doesn’t sound like a very good psychiatrist why haven’t you tried to find a new one? You don’t have to stay with the first one you come across. I went thru 5 till I found one that was right for me. And I’m glad you were able to get thru your struggle without the help of meds. Some people need them tho and psychiatrists treat a range of mental illnesses and not all just checkin in with you and write scripts, mine talks to me for like an hour. Try looking for someone new, someone who listens to you concerns about medications and also talks with you.

What is the point of a Psychiatrist?

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