I think my psychiatrist is a fucking retard. my family doctor is a good doc, and he said this guy was the best in the business (which seemed to make sense when i had to wait THREE MONTHS for our first appointment) but he seems pretty out of it.
we met today, and he forgot he had prescribed me lorazepam. He asked 'who prescribed you that' and i said 'you did' and he said 'well did i know you were already on clonazepam? [as he looks through his notes]' .. I said 'yes, i told you' and then he says 'oh yes, here it says you are on 1mg clonazepam a day.. i must have forgot'.. WTF? Then he asked how the citalopram is working for me and i told him (again) 'as i said last time, I stopped taking the citalopram after two weeks due to the increased mood instability it caused me. I would get very agitated easily' and he said 'oh yes, yes.. that's right' (it's been over 4 months since i stopped taking the citalopram to date.)
Today is my 19th birthday. I definitely did not fail to mention this as i remember him wishing me a happy birthday. Then when he writes out my prescription he writes down my wrong health card information, and writes my birthday as 'FEBRUARY 12, 1957' ... LITERALLY! How the hell do you get the wrong health card info and forget my birthday, and not realize after you've written down '1957' that that's not the year of my birth?? Now i'm waiting on the pharmacy (i waited for 15 minutes before they finally said 'oh we need to call and verify the information because he wrote the birthdate and your healthcard number down wrong') so now i'm waiting for a call back from the pharmacy, but i don't even know if they'll reach anyone so i guess i'll probably end up waiting until tomorrow for my meds.
He keeps pushing this lamotrigine shit on me. Originally i was against taking it because i'm already on seroquel, clonazepam, (and was on lorazepam) and i wasn't comfortable jamming all these different pills down my throat, especially after reading up on all the side effects this drug causes people, but he was pretty ignorant of my concerns and just said 'i havent seen a case of a bad rash in 30 years'. I then asked for an increase in my clonazepam dosage while i deal with these court and girlfriend matters and he denied and said i'm keeping you on the same dosage of clonazepam, but taking you off of the lorazepam. I said i think i've developed a tolerance and he said not to worry about that and just let the drug do it's thing... WTF.
He also kicked me out of his office 10 minutes before the one hour session was up, AND he was late almost 15 minutes to come and get me from the waiting area.
Should i request a different psych doctor? This guy's apparently 'the best' but i don't see it at all, this guy seems loopy.
