Drug Addict Psychiatrist and the Drug Addict Patient

I was on crystal meth for six years, and walked into a psychiatrist's office and said please help me get off this. He said that I was Bi-polar and that I was self-medicating ADD. Who isn't bipolar when they're addicted to meth? So he put me on HUGE amounts of medication, including but not limited to many addicting drugs....Lamictal, Risperdal, Adderall, Concerta, Ritilan, Dexedrine, Xanax, Klonopin, Cymbalta. Well, eventually I got off the meth 3 1/2 years ago, but for the last 6 years that I have been on these psych med cocktails my life has completely fallen apart. I am slowly but surely going off all the meds, against this doctor's orders, although he never sees me but mails me prescriptions. This is why I hate psychiatry. And they're all the same. If I can get off the stimulants, which is where I'm stuck, the rest will go smoothly. I have to be off of all drugs for at least 6 months or a year before someone decides if I'm bipolar, although it's all a bunch of crap.

Hi,

He mails you prescriptions? That is not right at all and he needs to be seeing you regularly. You gotta arrange an appointment with him to sort this mess out, because if you are really coming off all of these medications without his advice, then you are taking risks. Prolonged use of Crystal Meth can damage the brain, but you may not have necessarily needed to be given medication to get off the Crystal Meth in the first place.

Anyway - yeh - get your ass back to the doctor and ddemand that this be sorted.

Kevin

It is so ignorant/arrogant that someone would think they know enough based on a short interview about your condition especially considering you were addicted to meth which has an EXTREME effect on mood/personality/behavior.

Ew ew
that makes me mad

Indeed, improper use of Crystal Meth and other illicit drugs has been shown to physically alter the brain (for the worse, I might add). It's good that you're off it now but there might be some residual effect still being felt by yourself due to the Meth.

Kevin