I was a patient of Alpha Psychiatric because I was actually referred to them from a family member. I was being seen via Zoom meetings and phone calls with my provider, Shay Moody. Which, it started out decently. She is and was consistently late to appointments, which sure there are other patients in the world that have their stuff going on too. Good, she's being a good provider, or so i thought. I was under the impression that my appointments would be the typical hour long appointments, as her other patients seem to get a lot of the time too. I was wrong. My appointments typically ran 20-45 minutes. But what makes that so much worse is that I would have to wait 45 minutes -1.5 hours to be seen, for my scheduled appointment. Mind you, sitting in my car during work hours waiting on therapy, is quite unprofessional. Turn around and think about it, she hadn't even asked me why I was in therapy. She didn't and still doesn't know 90% of the reason I was even seeking therapy, and help. She was focused on putting me on medications - four to be exact. Now, I am pregnant. I called the office to find out what to do about my medications when I found out. I stopped taking one immediately due to knowing the side effects. I didn't know what the others would do, so I kept up with them. Fast forward to 11/30, I called in to see what to do about my meds. The girls at the front desk had absolutely no clue, but said "yeah, she's going to definitely take you off of _________________". Then, she said she sent my provider a message and that once she heard anything back she would call me back. I never heard anything. Come around to the very next day, I called again looking for an update (later in the day, to make sure that maybe it was just a busy day and they had the information, I didn't want to seem too crappy, but being pregnant on antidepressants and mood stabilizers (which, BTW; i was never dx with Bi-Polar, I'm not sure why she even put me on mood stabilizers). I didn't get my update. The girl at the desk did not know what i was talking about, and I informed her that I was 8 weeks pregnant and that I had stopped taking my medications on my own because I am not going to put my baby's life in danger because someone is being lazy and not responding. When I spoke with someone yesterday, they stated to me that she hadn't answered yet and they were telling me to not stop taking the meds, that I had to tamper off. Well, that hasn't been the thing for me since Monday. I stopped taking them in entirety. I don't honestly remember the entire conversation but with all of this frustration. Get to today, 12/3, I received an appointment confirmation call, and I asked about my medications again. The person on the other side of the phone did not know what I was talking about. So, I decided to tell them to just go ahead and cancel the appointment if my provider can't be bothered with me and my pregnancy. Then, the office manager, Alicia, called me stating that she would like to get to the bottom of this and make sure I was still seen. Since I am working full time, I do not have time to answer the phone or call back immediately. I called back when I could, and she tried to plead with me to go to a different provider. I am disgusted with the entire practice. I am disgusted that they would prefer to drug people without knowing what is actually is causing the issues within them. They would prefer to give people addictive medications, and then NOT RESPOND TO SOMEONE when they get pregnant and need to get off of the meds. I took it upon myself to go ahead and say fuck you to Alpha Psychiatric Services. You should just make sure that if you do use them, that you are ready to be medicated, not treated and not talked too, not informed on what to do if you are pregnant or become pregnant, and if you do - GOOD LUCK on getting anyone to give you any type of information regarding what to do for the health of you and your baby.
I am disgusted by the seer disrespect any medical provider can give to a patient. But a mental health doctor, during a pandemic, who is treating a patient who is now pregnant?! You'd think they would care just a little more just so it didn't kill an unborn child.
I apologize for anyone who has gone through this, and I feel bad dogging on the company, or even the people I spoke with. I am just extremely frustrated and highly disgusted that this is even a problem.
Ive never heard of a psychiatric place giving me more mental issues than I had before even going there.
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