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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 204 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The doctor's internal monologue: "Oh God it's one of these assholes who did 10min of googling and reading forums and thinks they know every single thing about medical science. Fuck fuck fuck he won't shut up I shouldn't have suggested that. OK, deflect, call him smart and move on that'll get him to shut up finally"

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 191 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"If I push on this, I will alienate myself from this clearly mentally unstable patient and at that point there is no chance to help them"

It's literally how mental health professionals are trained.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 98 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

De-escalating with mentally troubled people.

Step 1: agree with them

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 81 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Step 2: Patient is now the president

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine if someone snuck some therapy pills into the president's cofifeffifeffee.

[–] zeca@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

reminds me of that film where someone puts LSD into the water of some military base. Then everyone chills and start rolling in the grass, smelling flowers or smt.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] zeca@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Doesn't surprise me, and that's actually quite smart.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 weeks ago
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

It depends on the reason for their agitation. If they’re having a paranoid moment then you need ti tell them the truth to help them out of it.

If you lie they might pick up on it and that kills the trust they have in you.

You don’t have to press them to take meds they don’t want to take, but if you lie about why you’re stopping (“maybe you’re right”), instead of telling the truth about why you’re stopping (“I don’t want to break our therapeutic connection by pushing you”), it can make things backslide.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 74 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In this image: Anon doesn't know how to read subtext

What the doctor said: "It seems you've done some research. It's true that medication often has side effects, but this is not always the case and is often outweighed by the benefits. Let's set that option aside for now, and revisit later."

What anon heard: "Wow, you avoided my dastardly trap! I'm going to have to be more careful around you."

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or... God dammit, another person seeking to abuse benzos. That's like half of all new appointments for psychiatry. The minute the patient goes on a rant about SSRI, you can guess where they are directing the conversation to.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

this does not surprise me for a 4chan anon