ok let me tell you how i handle a doctor who wants to tell me to go to counselling and it's in my mind. which was all of one doctor. i told him to F*** right off if he thinks i'm making this pain up. he was shocked to say the least. i also told him that if 5 other doctors had diagnosed RSD where the F*** did he get his degree from.
in short....don't mess with me where my pain is concerned and i'll be polite hehehe.
i've got an excellent psychiatrist. i went to him in 2001 when i lost my son and brother. and when i went to him again this year about this RSD, he admitted he hadn't heard about RSD and was going to investigate. he also told me that pain, whether mental of physical is painful and he was not amused by this neuro who told me it was all in my head.