Lol beta blockers slow your heart rate and lower your pressure, they are not psychoactive.
Also psychologists can't prescribe medications.
Put some effort into this shit!
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A lot of people don't realize the difference between psychologists and psychiatrists. It doesn't help that a lot of places offer "therapy with medication management" so it's all through the same place but with two different people.
A clarification, please?
Where can a psycologist prescribe medication?
I've been in a situation where my therapist was a social worker, but he made his recommendations to the psychiatrist. The psychiatrist barely talked to me directly, he just had me fill out some tests about how I was feeling, and compared those results to the recommendations by the social worker.
And then prescribed me whatever the hell concoction made sense to him at the time.
Also, this anon is probably not worried about getting the details right about his friend's treatments. He probably didn't use the right word here.
That was good and bad to read at the same time.
Good you got the help you required, bad because you were never properly met by the psychiatrist. That's dehumanizing.
All things considered, it was better than what I expected to get from the Military.
Even still, no combination of the meds we tried gave me good results, but taking a vacation and visiting home did. This experience is largely what has put me off from meeting with anyone else since then.
If it somehow worked for you, I'm glad, but we all deserve better, especially when it comes to our minds.
BEEYTAH!!
Lmao a beta blocker is for fucking heart problems and similar things, it's not even a mental illness thing this dude is a dumbass
Edit: apparently beta blockers can be used for anxiety