Do you tell your psychiatrist about your drug use?

[dopeman420]

I have my first appointment with a real shrink soon. Should I tell him about my drug use or deny everything? Can he tell my insurance or others about what I've done? Will he treat me like a scumbug druggie and blame all my problems on drugs if I tell him?

[starvingniglet]

Will he treat me like a scumbug druggie and blame all my problems on drugs if I tell him?

yes

[dopeman420]

fuck

[Max Headroom]

naw but she can tell when I'm tweakin she doesnt give a shit

[equanimity]

If you're legitimately seeking help for your psychiatric issues, then you should be completely honest with your psychiatrist.  There are only very specific instances when a psychiatrist is allowed to tell anyone about anything you tell them.  Namely, if you pose an immediate and serious risk to yourself or someone else, or if you admit to something incriminating in the case of child/elder/etc. abuse or neglect.

[Sirfearoth]

If she is hot then ask her if she has ever fucked while high. Or if its a he andnyour into that then do the same thing.

[mmmmmmmQuestions]

do you tell your drug dealer about your prescription medication use? there's your answer

[eBagger]

If you're legitimately seeking help for your psychiatric issues, then you should be completely honest with your psychiatrist.  There are only very specific instances when a psychiatrist is allowed to tell anyone about anything you tell them.  Namely, if you pose an immediate and serious risk to yourself or someone else, or if you admit to something incriminating in the case of child/elder/etc. abuse or neglect.

Yeah this

If you lookin to score some benzos then naw, you ain't neva smoked no weed, you don't even like taking TYLENOL FOR A HEADACHE. ya dig.

I believe he can check on your history in certain cases. Like when I went to the outpatient Subutex place, if you didn't pay with insurance and just cash (worth it anyway, your paying $200 for fucking $1,800 dollars worth of pills street price @ 20 a piece) supposedly nothing left that building about your history/why your there.

do you tell your drug dealer about your prescription medication use? there's your answer

Yes 

[Ninja]

A psychiatrist is someone who is as equally as fucked up as you, but managed to get through college...  LOL.  You're wasting you're fucking money.

[Max Headroom]

If you're legitimately seeking help for your psychiatric issues, then you should be completely honest with your psychiatrist.  There are only very specific instances when a psychiatrist is allowed to tell anyone about anything you tell them.  Namely, if you pose an immediate and serious risk to yourself or someone else, or if you admit to something incriminating in the case of child/elder/etc. abuse or neglect.

Yeah this

If you lookin to score some benzos then naw, you ain't neva smoked no weed, you don't even like taking TYLENOL FOR A HEADACHE. ya dig.

I believe he can check on your history in certain cases. Like when I went to the outpatient Subutex place, if you didn't pay with insurance and just cash (worth it anyway, your paying $200 for fucking $1,800 dollars worth of pills street price @ 20 a piece) supposedly nothing left that building about your history/why your there.

do you tell your drug dealer about your prescription medication use? there's your answer

Yes 

>looking for benzos
implying taking benzos nonprescribed and telling your doctor means you don't have a legitimate reason to have them prescribed

Also patient history is always confidential, it doesn't automatically get transfered. Your shrink might ask for it but 80% of the time they don't, unless its like an intensive outpatient or something

[Rizzo in a box]

The last time (a few months ago) I saw a health professional about something psychiatric (I was trying to get off heroin, and managed to do it on my own, no thanks to them) I was telling them about my cannabis use (because who gives a fuck when you're trying to get clean from heroin? this is California after all), and because of their total ignorance of what anything fucking meant or any idea how cannabis works they wrote on my medical record that I smoke roughly eight ounces of weed a day. Oh yes. God yes, I wish I had enough money or lung power to smoke that much fucking weed.

Fuck.

[RisiR]

The last time (a few months ago) I saw a health professional about something psychiatric (I was trying to get off heroin, and managed to do it on my own, no thanks to them) I was telling them about my cannabis use (because who gives a fuck when you're trying to get clean from heroin? this is California after all), and because of their total ignorance of what anything fucking meant or any idea how cannabis works they wrote on my medical record that I smoke roughly eight ounces of weed a day. Oh yes. God yes, I wish I had enough money or lung power to smoke that much fucking weed.

Fuck.

Hahaha.

This reminds me of some study they did to prove that smoking hookah is less healthy than smoking cigarettes. I don't remember the whole thing but they strapped gas masks to the hookahs and made monkeys suffocate because they forgot that when you smoke hookah you don't burn the whole thing down in one draw but breathe oxygen inbetween.

[starvingniglet]

If you're legitimately seeking help for your psychiatric issues, then you should be completely honest with your psychiatrist.  There are only very specific instances when a psychiatrist is allowed to tell anyone about anything you tell them.  Namely, if you pose an immediate and serious risk to yourself or someone else, or if you admit to something incriminating in the case of child/elder/etc. abuse or neglect.

Yeah, it is a great idea to tell doctors/psychiatrists about your drug use, they will make sure to never prescribe you anything even remotely abuseable, and whole classes of drugs will be kept out of your reach because 'you might misuse them'.

[stentor]

I told my doctor I take oxy 80s just for headaches and that's barely scratching the surface for my relief and he said that's little boy pussy shit so he prescribed me Fentanyl 100 mcg patches and told me to chew them up. He said if it ain't gettin u high it ain't worth prescribing goddamn I love my doc

[starvingniglet]

I told my doctor I take oxy 80s just for headaches and that's barely scratching the surface for my relief and he said that's little boy pussy shit so he prescribed me Fentanyl 100 mcg patches and told me to chew them up. He said if it ain't gettin u high it ain't worth prescribing goddamn I love my doc

I had a doctor who would give me pretty much whatever I asked for, too.  But that is the exception, not the rule.