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Psychiatrist retiring

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Mar 21 2:19pm | Replies (8)

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@frouke

I’m totally relating to what you’re saying, this is exactly what I have to deal with sometime this year..my family doctor is also retiring and to make it worse we have a huge shortage of doctors in Canada, apparently there’s over a million people without a primary healthcare provider, they have to go to the hospital for medical care and this ties up the doctors so you’re waiting over six to eight hours to see one. I know it’s hard for you especially with a psychiatrist because they provide so much more and you get extremely dependent on them, they don’t just see you for ten minutes and prescribe you a medication, you open up your whole life to them. I also take Ativan for many years and this poses another issue for me because it’s a drug that is very hard to get today due to so much negative information. I hope that you will find another doctor with the help of your current psychiatrist, good luck and I wish you well.

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Thanks so much for your thoughtful reply. It’s quite a challenge to navigate through this. Unfortunately, at an unconscious level, it aligns with abandonment issues that I have from childhood. I know he’s retiring, I know he’s not abandoning me, but my brain circuitry doesn’t really understand that yet. I’m trying to look at it as an opportunity for a fresh start, but when you share things with someone for three decades that you don’t share with anyone else there is a visceral bond that forms that is very hard to imagine dissolving. Thanks again.