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...Frank Pittman, in 1985. Pittman did two important things for Turner. The first was to put him on the drug lithium, which is generally used to treat manic-depression as well as a milder tendency toward mood swings known as a cyclothymic personality. Turner's colleagues and J.J. Ebaugh, the woman for whom he left Janie, suddenly saw an enormous change in his behavior. "Before, it was pretty scary to be around the guy sometimes because you never knew what in the world was going to happen next. If he was about to fly off the handle, you just never...
...third of all the people who go to doctors suffer primarily from emotional disorders, says Dr. Ebaugh. Often a doctor can find nothing organically wrong with the patient, but is afraid that another physician may. So he hedges his report to the patient, leaving him confused and worried. Dr. Ebaugh calls this the "mug-wumping technique of trying to be right in any event...
...Ebaugh warns physicians against using psychiatric jargon or other technical lingo on patients: "Hiding your own ignorance behind the mask of scientific verbiage is more frequently depressive rather than impressive to the patient . . ." The patient should have his illness straightforwardly explained. Psychiatrist Ebaugh is particularly scornful...
...Doubter. Sometimes the doctor's anxiety is vented in hostility. When he says ". . . Damn neurotic-nothing wrong with him," Dr. Ebaugh believes that it can be translated as: "This patient is emotionally disturbed . . . I am doubtful of my own capabilities. By denying that the patient is sick, and depreciating him as being not worthwhile, I feel less threatened...
...Omnipotent. Sometimes, says Psychiatrist Ebaugh, a doctor has so much self-love that he must "preserve the illusion of omnipotence . . . the doctor who plays God." His patients, if they do not get better or do exactly what he says, "must bear the brunt of a revengeful Jehovah and assume full guilt for their failure to recover...