This office was very toxic to my mental health. I ...

This office was very toxic to my mental health. I often felt much worse when leaving than getting there. I felt ignored, neglected, and like they did not believe me about anything, even though I have no history of lying or devious behavior that would suggest that. All in all, these people wasted previous time I could have been using seeing serious professionals that respect their patients' well-beings and livelihoods.

I saw Jared Ritter as my Psychiatrist and Julia Howe as my therapist.

Jared Ritter:

1) He dismissed almost every concern I bright to him. I told him I was suffering badly with symptoms of impulse (I have anxiety, depression, PTSD from sexual assault and fibromyalgia). My impulse symptoms have been a 15 year history of an eating disorder, 8 yrs spending money on things I don't want, and 5 yrs stealing things I don't want. I regret the decisions later, but conduct this behavior when I'm anxious and have not been able to grasp them during the situation. I get so anxious that I throw up. He said as his response that I would learn my lesson by either running out of money/ruining my credit score or getting caught and I would get over it then. This was such an insensitive, ignorant and inappropriate response to give to a patient when you went to school to help people figure out how to deal with these things. He caused me to lose my faith in psychiatrists. This sounded like something a psychiatrist would say in 1955, back when they shocked gay people to "cure" them.

2) I called the office to let him know that I had not slept in 3 days, despite every effort to get some sleep, and that I was exhausted, dizzy and my head felt like a construction zone. He required a drug test even though I am not a substance abuse patient and had no drugs in my system. So, I had to drive to the office to take the test, not only in the middle of the work day, but running the risk of crashing since I had not slept in days. I actually lost consciousness in the facility (fainting from head pain, not sleeping). Then, I would have to wait for the results of the test, wait for him to write a prescription, and then wait for it to be filled. The last 2 (getting and filling prescription) were not in his control, but requiring the test only delayed my treatment and put me directly in harm's way of injury in a car crash. This decision was negligent.

Julia Howe: she gave me a lot of information that was incorrect and actually caused me problems. I told her that I was worried my symptoms of extreme fatigue, anxiety, panic attackd and loss of concentration would cause me to lose my job (I was correct and lost my job btw).

1) She said that I should not worry about losing my job, because my job probably would not be able to find someone as qualified as me and so they probably would not fire me. What a ridiculous and dusmissive statement to make when your client is suffering symptoms that are devastating their job performance.

2) She said that if I lost it, I would have another 30 days of insurance coverage. THAT WAS FALSE. You have until the end of the month of your last work day. My last day was Friday, July 29, 2016, so I didn't even have until Monday to see my doctors. I had to spend a precious $575 to continue my insurance immediately, all because she gave advice she was not qualified to give.

Overall, go to these people if you're willing to risk being ignored, dismissed or outright mistreated. Otherwise, find better "professionals".