Exactly, so find one that does want to see you, and genuinely wants to help.


No, this was not buried in the medical literature. In fact it is a land-mark paper, that showed the grim consequences of this diagnosis. And since then many neurologists have been trying to prove that he was wrong, and also blame him for the neglect and lack of care for such patients and the way they are being ping-ponged from neurologists to psychiatrists.

I personally think that the distinction between neurology and psychiatry is completely arbitrary, as both deal with diseases of the brain, and both know very little about it.

I think that as many neurological and psychiatric disorders currently have limited effective treatments, there is much place (in both) for finding the optimal combination of pharmacological management combined with physical and emotional supportive care as required.

You need to find those physicians that understand that those are hard diseases to treat and not hard patients to treat, and unfortunately not all are capable of mentally making this important distinction.

If you think you are too cynical then look at this patient:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RwToJB2bAE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XA0nZ2A_q8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVtm0hGYaFM&feature=channel