" "I fantasize an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry entitled "Ask them about their lives!"
Go read 1 Boring Old Man blog ..ask them about their lives for a retired psychiatrist's candid commentary on throwing medications at "symptoms" instead of asking patients about their life and what is happening....
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"Throwing medications at 'symptoms'" - sounds like my son's old dr.
I found out Saturday from the man who runs the Personal Care Home where my son, James, lives that this happened:
Doctor, don't you think James is on a lot of medicine?
Yes, he's on a lot, but, you know, it's because of the aggression that James showed in the hospital.
I said, Oh, my God, and the caretaker of my son said, "Yes, the doctor had your son confused with another patient".
Here we go again. I'm in the process of getting guardianship. Hopefully, it will happen soon enough for James. I thought the biggest hurdle would be getting my ex-husband (Have had no contact with him in over twenty years) to sign a waiver so that I could be our son's guardian. Thankfully, my ex agreed to sign. We adopted James at 10.5 months old. He had been in 5 foster homes since he was given up for adoption at birth. Then I find out that the papers include a biological sister of James, 7 years older, who probably never even knew she had a brother. She was given up for adoption by her parents at the age of eight. I don't know her name at birth, her adopted name or her name or whereabouts now. She would be about 40 years old. I'll have to pay for an attorney for her and the guardianship could be delayed trying to find her.
Oh, the injustice of the legal system.
Peggy
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