how did your phsychological evaluation make you feel???

well my surgeon is dr. hixion in atlanta.. he is great and answerd all of my qestions about the surgery..anyway he said he needed a copy of my thyroid profile and letters from my dietition and phych evaluation. so i got all my info together exept my phych evaluation.. i called alot of places but they didnt have an appointment that i htought was early enough...so i made one last call to a dr...walfish...he called me back the same day and said he would see me right away...i wasnt excited about the whole thing but i knew it was something i had to do..anyway i went to his office and filled out about 3 hrs worth of paper work and then we sat down to talk.. it was awful... i was very nervous and it seemed that every time he asked me a question and i gave him an answer he turned it around on me and made me feel that i was wrong or i was crazy.. anyway we wnt on about 30 min and he came to the conclusion that i was a good canidate for the surgery aand that i needed more counseling... i left the office feeling like i was a basket case and all that all this time i was ok with my life and it was all comming down...so i called my mom and gave her a piece of my mind tellg her that it was all her fault that i was a basket case and that i needed more counseling.. it was crazy.. then i felt bad for the things i said to her and waited for a few hours before i called to appoligize..i just felt so bad and confused...anyway my question ishas anyone experienced this and how will it effect me getting my surgery? if anyone has any good info on this please let me know... also i would like see if any of the other people that haveseen dr walfish felt the same way when they left? thanks for your input and all info will be appreciated.

Hi Jennifer, My psych eval was pretty uneventful. I am sorry you felt that way. I am in counseling anyway because of food addictions and other issues, but I would just go by how you feel. I say dr. Kelly and wasnt impressed with her. But thats ok, I got what I needed and that was it. She cleared me for the surgery. When is your surg date? Donna B.

hey donna, im waiting for dr. walfish to send dr hixion my paperwork so they can submit it to my insurence.. it will prob ably be at least one week for that then another 2 weeks for my insurence to let the dr.office know if im approved or not.. so im still waiting,,,ho about you? and by the way who is your suregon and what kind of insurence do u have if u dont mind me asking? hahahaha,, oh yea thanks for lyour reply...... talk to ya later... bye jennifer

I too was very nervous at my psych evaluation and also felt like what my answers were were not what he wanted. I saw Dr. Ritz for my evaluation and he put me on a On Hold Status, meaning he will not ok me for surgery until I have some therapy. I too felt that my mom was to blame for everything that has happened. I didn't go off on her, but my husband sure heard it. He came with me as to be my support group and I don't think he was helpful. Dr. Ritz asked him a few questions, and his answers were not what I think Dr. Ritz wanted. I am scheduled for my first therapy appointment today, hopefully I can tell them what they want.