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To: cva66snipe
I love my family too but I can't be in a room very long with all of them talking at once. I can't carry on a conversation in such a setting because I can't understand who I am talking to.

That happens to me all the time. I have a wife and 8 kids and am a person that likes quiet, except for when I like loud music or my Harley. I just don't trust psychologists when they hear a complaint and want to fix it. If I described the behaviors I've seen in my kids to a shrink, he'd probably put us all on drugs.

131 posted on 08/02/2006 8:00:56 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: DungeonMaster
That happens to me all the time. I have a wife and 8 kids and am a person that likes quiet, except for when I like loud music or my Harley. I just don't trust psychologists when they hear a complaint and want to fix it. If I described the behaviors I've seen in my kids to a shrink, he'd probably put us all on drugs.

There is a lot of misconception about Psychiatrist. They are they ones who prescribe the drugs. Most of them see their patient 15 minutes every 3 months. They ask few questions unfortunately including bothering to do an extensive medical history which may reveal an underlying medical cause as to anxiety, depression, etc and in doing so many times prescribe the wrong medicine due to a poor diagnoses. A Psychologist and or a LCSW gets more involved in treating the patient as in learning how to deal with or cope with it. Usually they know the patient far better than the shrink. There are some excellent ones out there BTW. They can prescribe no medication.

Some of the problem is the demise of the Family Practitioner who used to understand these things. Not many doctors anymore for example understand an Inner Ear Infection can about drive you mad. I'm in my late 40's and used to hear about people having them when I was growing up. You seldom hear of it now even though it is a major culprit in producing adult anxiety disorders. In most cases when the infection leaves to does the anxiety.

132 posted on 08/02/2006 8:12:56 AM PDT by cva66snipe (If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
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