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Hello Thaivisa members,


I went with my girlfriend  to Suanprung and we are very disapointed by that (see thread below), we went there 3 months ago, after a intake they wanted to keep her there for observation, I promised her before that she don't have to stay there wich was a big fear of her, so we agreed an outpatient program, she get a bag full of medicines and a appointment for next week, no explanation about the side effects and what to do when things go wrong, so no guidance at all.
The next day she wake up like a zombie, she could hardly speak and walk, horrible to see her like that, so I found an email adress on the Suanprung website from a senior docter and asked for advice, I got a quick response , halve  the medicine and come to me next week the docter said. next appointment the docter prescribed mood stabilizers and prozac and a appointment for over 2 weeks, no guidance or further examination or interview, but things went better, she seemed more happy and I was happy that something was happening, so no complaints, next appointment one month later..
But in meanwhile sometimes it went wrong again, very aggressive and angry sometimes, so we discussed that with the docter and my girlfriend cried a bit when she was talking about that, then the docter said to my girlfriend that she must behave more nice like a good woman and not be so angry and because she was crying so easily she doubled the dose of prozac, I did not know what I heard and my girlfriend also," I am not allowed to cry anymore she asked me later"
I also asked the docter about the diagnosis and how to go on, will there be talks with a psychotherapist to process things or only medicines, the diagnose was underlying depression and medicines was the way to go untill she can do it herself.
i think this is a dead end road and very old fashioned, my girlfriend needs to understand herself more and learn to avoid the traps in her mind and in my opinion this can be done by talking and talking and maybe with the support of medicines.
In CM there must be a more modern approach to be found, CMU or a foreign therapist for example, any of you know something about that?
She and I will be very helped with that!

Thanks in advance...
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Hello,

Yesterday evening I saw a big banded krait in my garden, I read that they are very shy and don't bite so easy but they are also deadly, Local people say let it stay there, it brings luck, but I am not so shure about that, especially when my brother with his 2 kids come in Januari running around in the garden.
I think he lives in a hole under some dead wood, that was the place I saw him for the last time.
So what to do, I don't want to kill it but it also makes me a bit nervous..

Thanks.

Hello Thaivisa members,




I am looking for a psychotherapist for my thai girlfriend, to make a long story short: we live together 100 km north of CM on the countryside, she suffers from depression and feelings of lost and guild and sometimes she is also paranoid, a lot of bad things happens in her past, for example two ex-partners died after she left them. I know her for two and a halve year now and I tried a lot to make her happy and sometimes she is very happy but it can change in a second and then she becomes very closed and moody for days. When we talk about that she don't understand what happens in her mind, this makes her (and me) very unhappy. It is impossible to make plans with her because she always thinks something bad will happen or that I will leave her, very hard to live with.

But I don't want to loose her because I love her very much and she is a very unique person, when I talked to people who know her for a long time they all say to me that she was never like this.

So if somebody can recommend us a good psychotherapist, doesn't matter thai or farang because she speaks very good english.

Any advice or recommendation welcome in a PM please.




Thanks in advance!