first client

it's a tragedy that a person can go so awfully misdiagnosed for so many years -- can see numerous doctors in multiple hospital departments and still not find out what's wrong with him. you know, people laugh at psychologists -- i laugh at those in our profession a lot -- but when something so glaringly obvious -- even to my inexperienced eye -- gets lost in the shuffle, i may have to upgrade the value of what we're doing. 40 years of waste because no one could spend two hours with the patient and spot the pattern, connect the dots. and this was someone smart, and likable, someone who would have made a success of himself if he had just gone to someone who could sit him down and say: look, you have such-and-such a condition, and you need meds. it's slightly heartbreaking, and this is just the beginning.