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Re: Coming to Terms
by daria_4 (-)
on Apr 06, 2006 - 07:24 AM
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I didn't have much of a choice on the three week thing. That was all he had, and if I wanted to see the same person, that's what I had to do. I don't exactly have a choice in who I see because of the military aspect (I've had a different person do my PAP for the last six years--sucks!). I really do like the Psychiatrist I have; that visit was an initial psychiatric evaluation. Considering what my goals were at the time, the three week thing made sense--I wasn't really in therapy yet.
I do have a counselor I can see more often who doesn't do meds or even see my medical record. In fact, other than having to tell my boss I'm going to an appointment, the Navy doesn't even track when I see her. I went to see her first, and she's the one who suggested the psych eval. I still see her now; she's awesome. Very easy to talk to; plus she's prior Navy so she knows what it's really like.
I found out recently that she's seeing 19 people from my ship... that's a really big deal since there's only 250 people assigned to it. She said she almost had that many once from a bigger ship (think, a thousand people). She brought it up to her chain of command that there is probably something seriously wrong with that ship, but I don't know if anything came of it or not.
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