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Marie Swartz
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What is the name of your state? What is the name of your state? Massachusetts
After being diagnosed with clinical depression related to the ending of my 33 year marriage, my therapist, a psychiatric nurse practitioner working under the oversight of a psychiatrist, prescribed multiple antidepressants over a period of nine months in an attempt to find one that was successful. During this time I developed exteme anxiety and panic attacks for which I was given multiple additional prescriptions including sedatives, antipsychotics, and benzodiazipenes. This culminated in a panic episode for which hospitalization was required, during which the attending psychiatrist oversaw my withdrawal from the array of meds I was on. Lingering painful physical effects required testing to rule out possible neurological damage. The head hospital psychiatrist, my primary care physician, the neurologist I saw, the new therapist I was referred to, and multiple other professionals whose opinion I have sought have given the opinion that the incredible number of varied medications I was on were dangerous and had undoubtedly played a role in my physical and emotional misery, and in my inability to work during the time I was on them. Since coming off all the medications I am able to think clearly for the first time since starting the therapy, and have no anxiety or signs of depression. I believe that the misprescribing done by my therapist robbed me of nearly a year of my life.
Is there a viable malpractice case here?
After being diagnosed with clinical depression related to the ending of my 33 year marriage, my therapist, a psychiatric nurse practitioner working under the oversight of a psychiatrist, prescribed multiple antidepressants over a period of nine months in an attempt to find one that was successful. During this time I developed exteme anxiety and panic attacks for which I was given multiple additional prescriptions including sedatives, antipsychotics, and benzodiazipenes. This culminated in a panic episode for which hospitalization was required, during which the attending psychiatrist oversaw my withdrawal from the array of meds I was on. Lingering painful physical effects required testing to rule out possible neurological damage. The head hospital psychiatrist, my primary care physician, the neurologist I saw, the new therapist I was referred to, and multiple other professionals whose opinion I have sought have given the opinion that the incredible number of varied medications I was on were dangerous and had undoubtedly played a role in my physical and emotional misery, and in my inability to work during the time I was on them. Since coming off all the medications I am able to think clearly for the first time since starting the therapy, and have no anxiety or signs of depression. I believe that the misprescribing done by my therapist robbed me of nearly a year of my life.
Is there a viable malpractice case here?