Normund Akots chart shennanigans - patient abuse.

Hi, thanks for all that followed up/asked how I was doing.

The Doctor, [EDITED BY MODERATOR] ended up giving me my chart, but it was only after basically trying to get me to cave and not ask for it.

What was funny was that when I finally got it, there were a number of funny things.

1. He had a note dating from when I first asked for my chart that said "patient INSISTING on chart." This nice little note proved that I was asking, that he said no, and that I had to ask again.

He denied this later. He said "I didn't refuse your chart?!" But the thing is, there would have been no need for him to say that I was "insisting" if he had just been cooperative. The thing is that [EDITED BY MODERATOR] is really not that bright. He likes to say things and then deny that he said them because he is not honest and it works for him better than actually having to admit that he said them and explain himself.

But basically the reason that he refused initially to give me MY chart, until I pointed out that it was illegal, was that he was, in his own words, embarrassed at the fact that there was basically a bunch of crap in there. This guy has basically been sleeping on the job, and trying depserately to prove his existence, which has been admittedly hard because he hasn't provided me one single service that I can tell. He tries really hard to come up with really lame Freudian-type theories.

For about the first six months that I saw him he tried to wrangle some kind of theory that I was abused by my parents and didn't know it. I actually didn't know that they still did this past the eighties. Seriously. And one time I got frustrated and said listen, Dude, you are seriously barking up the WRONG TREE. My parents didn't abuse me, and the fact that you keep insisting that I consider it is ludicrous.

Then, he said something.... even... stupider. He said that maybe it was actually evidence that my parents abused me because I was "denying it too strongly." THis guy is an idiot. Does he not even realize that he is totally painting me into a corner wherby there is no actual way in which I can express my opinion that my parents just plain old fashioned DIDN'T abuse me? He is basically saying that there really is no possible way that I can actually just not think they didn't abuse me. He just forced me to talk about the absolutely absurd possibility that my sedate and average parents may have abused me and I didn't know it/won't admit it for SO LONG that I got seriously annoyed, not that he was saying it only, but that I was having to waste time listening to him talk about it and pay him money to pursue inane, assinie theories that I know are absolute wastes of time, and at no time would he even discuss why it was that he was bringing it up. It wasn't like I came to him with emotional or perosnal problems. I had back pain and insomnia. So rather than admit he had absolutely NOTHING FOR ME (other than to have me ask for more narcotics, which was a really negligent thing to do IMO), he wanted to force the discussion down some neo-Freudian "your mother abused you and you don't know it" path that I actually didn't know that people were stupid enough to still put up with anymore.

And after I finally said look, Dude, that's abolutely crazy (yes, YOU, dude) then he got MAD AT ME, and started saying that well, maybe the problem wasn't my parents after all. In all likelihood, because I finally made him feel criticized and annoyed that he had to actually pony up, he started saying that I had ..... a PERSONALITY PROBLEM!

That, the ultimate garbage can diagnosis, was the cherry on the cake of the absolute waste of time and money that [EDITED BY MODERATOR] is. It is an abuse of his profession, in my opinion, to say that I have a personality problem when he is unwilling to discuss absolutely one single piece of evidence for it.

(Actually his one piece of evidence for it was that I don't sleep at night, which ended up being his evidence that I had a mood disorder too, the guy has NO CONCEPT of parsimony, and most of the time he doesn't need to).

But he said so many seriously ridiculous things about me that it was difficult to keep track of them all, and then the chart business confirmed that his ultimate strategy was to not ever get pinned down by actually saying anything definitive.

But declaring me nuts simply because I irritate him is in my opinion a personal abuse of his profession, much along the lines of getting women into bed. It is a personal use of his profession for personal reasons. It is like if he had a fender bender with someone and said that they were crazy because he was a psychologist - we all think that the people that we get into personal dissagreements with are nuts. It isn't right that he should actually get to DECLARE someone nuts, however, just because he's a shrink. That's using his job to weild power over people in his personal life. And I think it's malpractice, just like a lot of the other things like he did, like practicing medicine without a licence by telling me to start/stop/ask for more medication rather reclessly.

The guy is basically a Dr. Mesmer quack, flipping through the DSM manual randomly and trying everything not until he finds soemthing that fits, but until he finds something that he can make a case for and justify his referrals from the doctors that although I am paying him, he clearly feels more obligation to do the bidding of.

Hi,

I had to edit out the name of the doctor that you used because I don't want a legal situation developing here - understand? If you genuinely feel that this guy is bad at his job, then go to the ombudsman to make an official complaint.