Psychiatrists are such a joke
Ive been having a hard time getting stable and sleep has been awful, so I went to ask my psychiatrist if there’s anything he can prescribe to get through the nights. I decided to not google anything beforehand and just asked for “no antipsychotics or benzolikes”. He went “sure there’s zolpidem”. I asked him what kind of medication that is and how it works, to which his reply was “it’s a uhh.. it helps you sleep”. Ok, whatever. I double checked and asked him “and it doesn’t work on GABA?” To which he replied “uhh I’m not sure, let me check….-no it works on ‘gamma-aminobutyric acid (in dutch), it does not work on GABA’”.
So he prescribes me 10 of these pills, I get home and go to google the medicine. First thing I read is (paraphrased) “this is a medication that works on GABA”. Sure enough GABA is the short form abbreviation of the thing he mentioned that it works on.
What kind of joke is that? How am I ever supposed to trust a psychiatrist if they can’t even get something that simple right? I’m not even gonna bother picking up these sleeping meds, what a joke.