SSRIs are a fucking shitpost honestly.
Sometimes they just fucking work, sometimes they really don’t, sometimes not feeling suicidal constantly is outweighed by being slightly insane.
Neurology is a fucking mess right now. What a shitpost.
I hope to live to the day where we can stop collectively shrugging our shoulders in response to “why does X happen” in relation to the brain.
- be me
- finally a practicing doctor after an eternity of school
- on my way to the next patient
- overwhelming stench of B.O. as I open the door
- try my best to hide my disgust and ask how he’s doing
- patient goes on a rant about how life is unfair, something about jewish people and 13%
- just nod along as I pull up his info
- guy is clearly depressed
- suggest ssri’s to improve his outlook on life
- youveactivatedmytrapcard.jpg
- guy proceeds to spend 20 minutes talking about how he saw a post online saying ssri’s are bad, it’s mind control, and he mentions jewish people again
- already 5 minutes late for my next patient
- nod and agree and tell him to have a nice day
Why can’t these people understand I’m just trying to help them?
If you wanna use the > things you can do \ then >
>like thisThanks i had no idea lol
Holy shit, I bet you know how to triforce too.
ENLIGHTEN US WIZARD
> /b/ me
> been lurking for 17 years
>still can’t triforce
>wife left me for Chad
> I’m so lonely.
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She agreed because she didn’t want to argue with you. Not because you’re right.
The doctor: “You’re right.”
The context:
Blue is a huge asshole, but I agree that this is likely what actually happened.
This guy is right about one thing: the doc doesn’t give a fuck about this idiot
I disagree, I think the doc did care but they knew that wasn’t a battle they were going to win so they just conceded and moved on to the next patient.
There’s a saying that you can lead the horse to water but you can’t make them drink and that summarizes the scenario quite well,
if you mentioning a topic spurs the person into a 5 or 10 minute rant about the topic you’re not going to come out on top they already have too firm of an opinion. Just save your energy and help the next guy.
That’s how we were trained in selling merchandise as well, you can give your recommendations but if you say your recommendation and the customer has a firm opinion otherwise, backtrack a little bit and start focusing on the good things that the customers looking for in the product. The only thing pushing the topic further is going to do is going to aggravate them and make them lose faith in your ability to know your merchandise.
also referring to the child comment, this gives mad “look you’re my friend but you argue way the fuck much and I don’t have the energy for this right now” vibes lol
Or they know there’s no point trying to rationalize someone out of an opinion they didn’t reason themselves into. Oh, and it’s worthless to prescribe medication for someone who doesn’t want to take it.
Anon, I’m respectfully advising you to think about this interaction and reflect more on it.
Excellent, politely and respectfully addressing the OP of a post on another site from many years ago.
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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”
“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.
De-escalating with mentally troubled people.
Step 1: agree with them
Step 2: Patient is now the president
Imagine if someone snuck some therapy pills into the president’s cofifeffifeffee.
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.”
There’s a reason why we have worse health outcomes v everyone else
There is, but this ain’t it
Sure it is, O(OP) decided his own opinion of a medicine based on what he read on the internet trump’s actually trying to get help.
All problems can be medicated
Huh, a post on a site usually frequented by lonely edgelords. A site notorious for racism and violence. And this post is what, appealing to temperance? No, of course not. It’s trying to convince the unstabled medicated ones to stop taking their medication.
