Dear Waves,

I'm concerned about your fingers.
. . . interesting that they are a visible manifestation of your mood.

This is useful.

Yuck. . . . hearing that you are experiencing depression in a new form. The usual forms are bad enough as far as I know.

Your talks with your pdoc cover a great deal of ground.

My pdoc appointment goes like this:
-he asks how I am doing
-I say fine
-he asks about something general like my work
-I mumble and tell him that the medications are fine and what 'scripts I need for next time.

-Somewhere in between all of that he might tell me a story about his diet, his daughter, his wife, a place he used to work. . . . . . . .


M.

Dear Mari

my pdoc is both my prescribing psychiatrist and my therapist. all our sessions are 1 hour, not the 15 mins most people have with prescribing pdocs.

last time i had a lot of things going on and it was more an extended psychiatric/medical consultation more than talk therapy. we covered an extraordinary amount of ground compared to how it usually goes.

usually it is much more dilute... me rambling about something or other... sometimes we spend a good half hour sort of "chatting" or even joking and on some sort of digression.

~ waves ~