I had my hour long psych appointment today and she told me I had to come back next week to finish.. Is that normal?

I only had 1. He had me fill out a big form, ran it through his scanner then told me all about my surgery. Didn't really ask me any questions.

I had one. wasn't quite a psych evaluation. was done by a licensed social worker who just asked a bunch of questions and told me a bit about the surgery and what the insurance company is looking for in her evaluation

I was asked to make another appointment to discuss my problems. I think they will be helpful in the mental long run.

Lily

I had two appointments. One was a 4 hour test. It tested for various mental issues. the second appointment was going over the test and discussing the surgery. I learned from the test that I have a disease that is called: Free from all sprirituality. I asked if this was an issue and the doctor said no, this particular part of the test was to see how I cope with things. One of the questions was if you were hurt in a car accident would you pray and turn to God or would you get out of the car and try to flag down help. I chose the help. A whole bunch of questions on if you'd turn to God or if you would turn to booze, drugs, seek help, etc. I cannot believe this is a true mental disorder. Cracks me up.

.. I learned from the test that I have a disease that is called: Free from all sprirituality. I asked if this was an issue and the doctor said no, this particular part of the test was to see how I cope with things. One of the questions was if you were hurt in a car accident would you pray and turn to God or would you get out of the car and try to flag down help. I chose the help. A whole bunch of questions on if you'd turn to God or if you would turn to booze, drugs, seek help, etc. I cannot believe this is a true mental disorder. Cracks me up.

hahahaha! I took a 160 question test that included some questions a bit like that. I go in for a Psych meeting in a few days. I wonder if I will have that mental disorder too? I am a pragmatic Buddhist.

One of the questions was "Have you been on the cover of a magazine in the last couple of months" and I answered yes... was interviewed about my painting....I thought this was pretty funny to ask! Perhaps I should bring in a copy of the Mag to prove Im not delusional....:biggrin0:

Mine was one session for about 1.5 hours.

hahahaha! I took a 160 question test that included some questions a bit like that. I go in for a Psych meeting in a few days. I wonder if I will have that mental disorder too? I am a pragmatic Buddhist.

One of the questions was "Have you been on the cover of a magazine in the last couple of months" and I answered yes... was interviewed about my painting....I thought this was pretty funny to ask! Perhaps I should bring in a copy of the Mag to prove Im not delusional....:biggrin0:

That must be the test I took. The questions were mostly all out there. Waste of time and $85.

My insurance only required the psych eval. I was in and out within 2 hours. He asked me a bunch of questions and explained the surgery to me and ask me what my next step would be if the surgery wasn't a success. I answered honestly, and even opened up about past issues that took me down the path of choosing food as a crutch. By the end of the session he was very pleased with the way I presented myself, and told me that I was a perfect canidate for the surgery, and he would be glad to given the recommendation to insurance. The surgery itself didn't cost a penny because of our insurances MH plan. I had to pay for the report alone which was $25 but it was well well worth it... :biggrin0:

My initial psych eval lasted one hour. She spent the time asking questions about my life, family and my espectations of what I expected from the surgery. I'm pretty sure she was making sure I truly understood what a major life changing decision I was making. Things went great and I was very comfortable. My psychologist did ask for me to either talk to her on the phone or make a 15 appt. to see her prior to the surgery. I wouldn't worry so much about the appt. Go with the flow and have a good attitude.

Mine is requiring two visits. The first was an hour-long visit with a psychologist who asked general questions about my social situation, questions about mental health and substance abuse history, and "Why now?" with relation to the surgery. I also had to fill out an emotional eating questionnaire, and take two of those godawful-long personality 'tools' - the MMPI-2 and the MBMD. (Which are ridiculous, as others have said.)

She is also making me schedule another hour-long appointment to "discuss my results" before I can be approved... At $632 a pop. Holy cats! I'm honestly not sure what the second visit is for. I have no psych history and thought the eval was a formality. :/ I think they're milking a trapped (and desperate) cow.

I had my hour long psych appointment today and she told me I had to come back next week to finish.. Is that normal?

I only had one when i went to do the pre op stuff. . . you know the psych, nutritionist, physician, surgeons, etc. . . the psych eval was long though about 2 hours long. . had to fill out this really repetitive quesitonaire . . . very boring and side tracking. . . but got it done and off i went. . .

I only had one when i went to do the pre op stuff. . . you know the psych, nutritionist, physician, surgeons, etc. . . the psych eval was long though about 2 hours long. . had to fill out this really repetitive quesitonaire . . . very boring and side tracking. . . but got it done and off i went. . .

I filled out a 160 question form, on one visit, then the next visit I had a long talk with questions about family, support, goals and then got the results of my questionair. It was just fine.

Mine was about 40 mins long and he asked questions about me growing up and if I understood what the surergy entails and said that was it, I was good to go!!

I had one apt. He asked me question about my life, support, surgery etc... for about 10 min then I had to take a 600 true false question test, a 20 question test on drug and alcohol history and two other small tests simmilar to the others then I went home. But really dont worry about the phych eval unless you think this is going to be a cure all and you hear voices that tell you to murder then you should be fine.

If I wanted to run my eval through insurance, then it would have been 2 visits. I choose the self-pay option and therefore only 1 visit, that lasted about an hour and a half. She never had me fill out any questionairres, but rather took notes as she asked me questions and I talked. We talked quite freely, and I think she was looking also for a history of mental illnesses, and/or things like anorexia, bulima, binging, (no to all) etc. She also asked if I thought that I wouldn't have to do any work and if I thought that the surgery would do all of the work for me (um, nope...don't we all wish...in fact the nurse at my group nutrition class joked, if anyone knew of a surgery where we would wake up skinny to let her know...lol!)

But overall it was a fine experience. I'm sure if we ran it through insurance and did 2 visits, she would have just broken the whole thing up into 2 45 min. segments, but it would have been the same questions, etc.