What are the considerations for online counseling for psychological and psychiatric disorders?

  In consultation, we often find many visitors, who say only a few words, the doctor has to spend time to keep asking several times to understand his problem, and some, on the contrary, write a lot of content at length, mostly unrelated to the condition, which wastes the time of both parties. It can also affect the mood of one or both parties. So in order to make your problem clearer, to make the doctor better for you please note the following points: 1, is it to determine the diagnosis, or treatment issues?  2. What are the discomforts, abnormal emotions, words, thoughts and behaviors?  3. What medications have you been taking and at what dose? How long have you been taking them, and are you still taking them?  4.What is the previous diagnosis of the disease and whether the medication is effective?  5, do not often consult different doctors, because there may be some inconsistent views, but each doctor has their own successful treatment cases and experience, they provide more in their treatment of patients in the successful, effective program, frequent change of doctors lead to you do not know according to whose program of treatment, you will repeatedly consult, dilemma, can not make up your mind which treatment program to take. This leads to aggravation of the disease and delays in treatment.  6, there are mental illnesses generally need to take medication according to the course of treatment, short-term generally not effective, repeatedly changing drugs will delay the disease. Some need to go to the hospital for examination, the doctor can only make a preliminary diagnosis based on the patient’s description.  7, some questions currently no clear answer, there is no need to repeatedly ask. For example, what is the exact cause of schizophrenia? Does taking medication necessarily lead to fetal abnormalities, etc.? Some may ask: Can psychotropic drugs be bought in general pharmacies? Most medications are not available in general pharmacies, but some antidepressants are available in some places. Therefore, doctors are not sure whether they can be bought locally.  8.If the condition is not effective in long-term treatment, or if there are doubts about the diagnosis or treatment, or if there are more problems, you should click on ‘telephone consultation’: this is more convenient and can provide a comprehensive understanding of the condition, and can also interview the patient, psychiatric examination, more accurate diagnosis, and develop or adjust the treatment plan.  9.To have a psychological consultation, it is best to do it face to face with the doctor, or telephone consultation, which can be more convenient to observe and understand more information, but also have a certain continuity, can promote the recovery of the disease.  10.Don’t ask more than 3 questions at a time, this will lead to not knowing which is the main and which is the secondary one? There are also some problems that disappear after another problem is solved.