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Frustration with Health Professionals
Hi everyone,
I am very glad to have found this forum I could really use the support.
My wife has long suffered from BPD, Bipolar and Major Depression. She has irrational and highly aggressive episodes that are very hard to deal with.
She has for many years been treated by a Physciatrist, a Clinical Physcologist and a GP who I have obviously paid many $1000s to.
When my wife's behavior is at its worst I find that I am not capable of effectively dealing with her and have sought the help of the 3 health professionals that treat her. However, they refuse to communicate with me by email or phone. I am told by the receptionist that as I am not their patient that they will not talk to me.
The receptionist tells me that if her behavior is uncontrollable that I should call the police ?
I find this to be an enormous cop out. Our society now has all these campaigns about mental health awareness yet a medical team I already have in place refuses to help in time of need and defers the problem to the police who are obviously not qualified to deal with the problem. The repercussions of me ringing the police on my wife would be terrible to say the least.
I've asked that they simply call my wife and talk to her to convince her to go in for treatment but this never happens. I have also asked that the 3 of them communicate regarding her treatment but this seems to hard for them also.
Has anyone else had this problem ?
Does anyone else feel that health professionals hide behind legislation because they are lazy ? arogant ? or just don't really care unless they are being paid ?
I am very glad to have found this forum I could really use the support.
My wife has long suffered from BPD, Bipolar and Major Depression. She has irrational and highly aggressive episodes that are very hard to deal with.
She has for many years been treated by a Physciatrist, a Clinical Physcologist and a GP who I have obviously paid many $1000s to.
When my wife's behavior is at its worst I find that I am not capable of effectively dealing with her and have sought the help of the 3 health professionals that treat her. However, they refuse to communicate with me by email or phone. I am told by the receptionist that as I am not their patient that they will not talk to me.
The receptionist tells me that if her behavior is uncontrollable that I should call the police ?
I find this to be an enormous cop out. Our society now has all these campaigns about mental health awareness yet a medical team I already have in place refuses to help in time of need and defers the problem to the police who are obviously not qualified to deal with the problem. The repercussions of me ringing the police on my wife would be terrible to say the least.
I've asked that they simply call my wife and talk to her to convince her to go in for treatment but this never happens. I have also asked that the 3 of them communicate regarding her treatment but this seems to hard for them also.
Has anyone else had this problem ?
Does anyone else feel that health professionals hide behind legislation because they are lazy ? arogant ? or just don't really care unless they are being paid ?
