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Distressingly, this is why you should probably use the same rules talking with mental health and social service personnel that you would use with the police. T
by douche 11y ago
Distressingly, this is why you should probably use the same rules talking with mental health and social service personnel that you would use with the police. Tell them nothing. Honesty does you no good, and can get you in a world of hassle.
Works well with doctors as well. Tell them what is wrong with you, so they'll give you the right treatment without jerking you around and wasting your time.
- anonymous484 11y agoYep. This guy was actually pretty lucky, as he could have gotten a tranquilizer shot and wouldn't have been able to argue his point for a while. With the hospital happily charging $10k/day :)
- noobie 11y agoThe author is actually a woman.
- incompatible 11y agoDon't you generally have to give consent for medical treatment?
- milkey_mouse 11y agoNot if they think you're mentally unstable enough to warrant them administering treatment, regardless if that treatment ends up being necessary or not.
- noobie 11y ago>Tell them what is wrong with you, so they'll give you the right treatment Yeaaah about that, am I the only one concerned about the state of medicine, i.e. diagnosis? There always seems to be a myriad of symptoms that are common between various diseases/conditions. I honestly don't see how to blindly trust doctors. inb4 edit: I am not saying we shouldn't trust doctors.
- DanBC 11y agoYou can always ask your doctor why they think you have X and not Y. And whenever they recommend treatment it's always good to ask "What happens if we don't do this? What happens if we just watch and wait?"
- Swizec 11y ago> And whenever they recommend treatment it's always good to ask "What happens if we don't do this? What happens if we just watch and wait?" And then you don't do that and spend $1400 in vet bills to find out your bird had a tummy ache. Thanks overly worried girlfriend.
- thedaemon 11y agoThere is only 1 thing that dog people and cat people can agree on. That is: bird people are really weird.
- noir_lord 11y agoAs someone who sees a lot of doctors the ones I really trust are the ones who say "I don't know" or "I'm not certain but...". Given that my symptoms matched a host of things and its a 7 to 20 in 100,000 thing that only got caught because a good AE (ER) doc told me to forcefully request an MRI I've learnt which doctors to trust over time. Also if you have a rare condition don't expect your average doc to know much about it even my specialist (first one) wasn't that up on the latest research (again unsurprising, they are concerned with hundreds of patients, I'm only concerned with one). Doctors are generally excellent but they are not omniscient and the good ones own it.
- toyg 11y agoWhat is the point of voluntarily meet a mental health practitioner, if you are not going to talk to him? I agree that, in a situation with possible adversarial repercussions (e.g. social services), you should be extra-careful; and in the original post the author's fault was that she did not recognize the self-harming question was such a situation. However, resorting to silence does not seem like a practical way to solve any problem -- it works with the police only because someone else (your lawyer) will do the talking for you.
- awqrre 11y agoDoctors always gave me the impression that they wanted to feel useful and would rather you not telling them what's wrong... That sentiment comes from only a few visits to the hospital.