Dr. Freddy Ali, MD

Dr. Ali came off friendly and validating at the start, but by the second session, I just felt patronized, like he was just trying to placate me till I left. He checked his watch constantly, starting less than 5 minutes into a session. He ignored the symptoms I was most concerned with. Would minimize what I shared, then try to backtrack with, "I don't want to minimize......" I felt like he made very little effort to understand anything I shared and consistently misinterpreted me, all while telling me how articulate I am. Then he slapped me with a BPD diagnosis in the last hour of my last day with no explanation. In fact, when I asked, he started flipping through his papers and hemmed and hawed until I finally just asked to leave so I could say goodbye to my groupmates. Much of my time with Dr. Ali just reinforced my medical trauma, and I feel like I was a nuisance.