UPMC Chautauqua - Jones Memorial Health Center - Jamestown kittensparklekinz 101: If I could give this NEGATIVE stars I absolutely WOULD. I was absolutely BELITTLED during a so-called psychiatric evaluation. I was manipulated, triggered, toyed with and more by the so-called evaluator. Not only did he belittle me, insinuate that I was lying and that I had nothing more than anxiety, but gave out completely outdated and false information to justify his ridiculous claims. He also VIOLATED BASIC HIPPA LAWS by speaking to people that knew me outside of the office, and factoring in their BIASED perspectives into MY healthcare. Despite hours and hours of concerningly symptomatic paperwork from myself, my family, and my schoolteachers; he dismissed every ounce of "proof" as coincidence or outright lies. For the entire TWO APPOINTMENTS (we had at least four additional scheduled; he wiped those away and told me to never return) he was willing to let me have, it felt like I was being put on the spot to prove myself worthy enough to even be CONSIDERED for the title of mentally ill. He narcissistically declared that had I actually been through everything I claimed to have experienced that I would be completely dysfunctional, nonverbal, and in constant panic (I do experience each of these, just not CONSTANTLY as this would be unrealistic). This "evaluation" (I do not believe it can be classified as such as he disregarded all of the paperwork upon speaking with me for a single minute, and only ever skimmed through it) cost me so much time, energy, and money. All to reinforce the idea that my struggles did not matter now, nor did they ever matter, or would they ever matter. Several years later, I am sitting here having just found out that this "psychiatrist" has a degree in PHILOSOPHY!!! Not even psychology, which would STILL be an underqualification. It has genuinely taken me multiple YEARS of TRAUMA COUNSELING to prove to myself that my issues matter, let alone be able to decipher them all. I barely graduated high school thanks to the sheer lack of help from this SORRY EXCUSE for a MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC. Thank you for making my entire life worse. Oh and thank you *so* much for insisting that small inconsistencies meant that I was telling a fable. Turns out I have dissociative and repression issues that cause the memory of my own difficulties to falter. Thank you for instilling a sense of fear in me so deep that I thought all hope was gone. Thank you for giving my parents a reason to belittle me for my shortcomings, and abuse me for being different. Thank you for introducing a level of despair so great into my mind, body, and soul, that I was *inspired* to attempt suicide. Thank you for absolutely nothing but hell.
