Comments on Quiet Like Horses: Not Knowing Doctors (not really anyway)

I never know anything personal about my doctors, h...

2009-11-04T08:47:17.544-08:00

I never know anything personal about my doctors, however I seemed to get attached if I see them for a long time. We recently had to change doctors due to changes in insurance and I had to drop a doctor I had been seeing for 13 years. It felt like I was cheating on him...

On another note, I think of my blog as my psychologist. It helps.

believe it or not...but my own father is a psychia...

2009-11-04T08:14:10.576-08:00

believe it or not...but my own father is a psychiatrist of the child variety. i was never really close with him growing up and i'm pretty sure he came uber close to fattening me up with ritalin on a few occasions, but it's strange how he always knew when i really needed help without me ever saying one word. as i've gotten older, i realize the burdens he must have had to carry every day, especially dealing with children and i now understand why he may have been the way he was. we're like peas and carrots now, and he still knows exactly the right words to say when i need to hear them the most. this is my shout-out to docs! HOLLAAAA!

Talking to an impartial person about emotional iss...

2009-11-04T06:11:45.210-08:00

Talking to an impartial person about emotional issues really helps. If they're good at their jobs they don't judge, yet help you reach some sort of resolution. The problem with only using friends as sounding boards is that they might want to make you feel better, without helping you to really see the situation.

kudos to you for agreeing to see someone...it's am...

2009-11-04T05:39:34.315-08:00

kudos to you for agreeing to see someone...it's amazing how much it can help! best of luck, and maybe he/she will have a leopard print couch for you to spill your guts on...now that would be cool!

LOL yeah my psych soothed me with her inability to...

2009-11-04T02:45:02.551-08:00

LOL yeah my psych soothed me with her inability to completely not remember anything from one week to the next (helped with the overwhelming thoughts that she went home and told stories about me over dinner parties)...in fact her memory was so bad she once told me the same "pep" story three times and I still didn't feel comfortable actually fessing up that I'd heard it all before. I felt very safe talking to someone who was that forgetful. I agree on the doctor thing though....it is nice when they know something personal about you that means they don't look at you and just see like those medical dummies.

It's funny how different we all are. I always frea...

2009-11-04T00:08:01.642-08:00

It's funny how different we all are. I always freak out when any kind of professional who I have a 'work' relationship with; my doctor, my dentist, my physio, etc, asks me something about my personal life. I also don't want to know anything about them. Knowing about where they went on vacation somehow erodes my trust in them as omnipotent and all capable of putting in that filling without slicing my lip in half.
Finnish doctors are like that, impersonal. So I guess it has to do with how I was brought up. But Danish doctors on the other hand, have receptions that look like living rooms and ask you how your marriage is doing.
I used to fight the urge to run away screaming.