Dr. Cali Estes

If someone comes to me, I'm very different.

The normal psychologist, you go in, you say, I have anxiety.

They open up the DSM and they say, well, according to this, okay, you have anxiety, NOS.

I'm going to diagnose you.

You're going to get this drug.

I don't agree with that.

That's the only medicine where we don't blood test.

If I walked into an ER and I said, I'm having stomach pain, they're not going to go, oh, you have an ulcer according to the book, take this.

They're going to go, hang on, we're going to do this test, this test, this test, and this test.

We're going to rule all this stuff out and they give you the proper medication.

You may lay in the ER for five hours in pain because they don't know what you have.

We don't do that in psychology.

We give you drugs based upon a book from 50 years ago.

It's stupid.

So welcome to my world.

I've been fighting that to not do that.

So I fight other therapists and I fight psychologists because I think it's wrong.

So her diagnosis, correct.

Her solution, incorrect.

I think that's bad medicine.