James S Pratty, MD

After seeing another psychiatrist for over 2 years, my depression was not getting any better.
After treating with Dr Pratty for 1 ½ years, I feel the best I have felt since my depression began and i am definitely getting better. Life is to be lived ! … Dr Pratty knew to change my medication and monitor the correct dosage to get the desired results. He is very knowledgeable and caring. His office staff is excellent too especially Rosie and I never had to wait more than 15 min to be seen from my appt.

I have suffered from OCD as a Checker since age 7, and I am now in my 50’s, struggling most of my life with the OCD monster. I have been hospitalized in a psychiatric facility twice when I was in my 30’s, due to the debilitating nature of OCD, and my inability to cope with work and marriage. I was prescribed Prozac and experienced years of sexual dysfunction, i.e. bluntly, an inability to have an orgasm. I thought all antidepressants caused this sexual hell and I stopped Prozac or any antidepressant, until October 2015, when I read about Dr. Pratty on the OCD Foundation website, as a leading expert in OCD, a founding author of the Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Symptom Checklist. He prescribed Viibryd which he said would not cause sexual dysfunction. I skeptically tried the medication, and I have not experienced any sexual problems, and the overwhelming urge to check is greatly lessened. I am so grateful to Dr Pratty for his expert knowledge of this wonderful medication, Viibryd, as my life is no longer as miserable as it has been. Please talk to Dr Pratty if you have OCD, and need medication to help with the Serotonin imbalance that can only be corrected with medication. You won’t regret it. My life is worth living now.

Dr. Pratty has been an amazing Doctor. He is truly interested in helping his patients and always asks how they can improve their operation to better serve their patients. He is a very knowledgable Doctor. I have also never had to wait for a very long time upon arrival. An overall amazing office!

Dr. Pratty told me not to get pregnant because I took antidepressant. I was almost 40 and my husband and I struggled during recession financially. But our biggest wish was to have a baby.
He was very rude, talked to me like I was a little child. I never went back. Another doctor helped me with the right antidepressants that would not hurt my baby if I would get pregnant, and it worked out well. We are today parents of a healthy and happy 3 year old, the recession is over and we provide very good for him. I would not recommend anyone to see that doctor.

Fantastic doctor! He has been seeing my wife for 2 years and has helped her immensely. He’s compassionate about what he does and it shows. He is really concerned about my wifes well being.
I would recommend him to anybody who’s looking for a Psychiatrist.
We recently changed insurance carriers and he was our main priority.

Dr. Pratty has been a savior! I went from being severely depressed to feeling like I could live again and be a productive member of society. He diagnosed me with Bipolar and OCD and you can imagine what a shock it was to finally have an answer to what might have been disrupting my life for so many years. He has tried many medications to combat my depression and anxiety and this is very common for mental illness. You have to find the right combination that works for your brain chemistry. Recently he tried me on Lamactil and I went from being extremely depressed and wanting to lay in bed everyday to wanting to wake up and get things done in my day. It has been a godsend. His office is also wonderful. Rosie and Archie have been nothing but informative, sweet, and friendly anytime I had a request or question. The whole office is a class act. I’d recommend Dr. Pratty to anyone battling any kind of mental illness. He really takes the time to listen to you and doesn’t give up when you say something isn’t working. He also makes you feel like having mental illness is just like any other illness and that there is no stigma attached to it. I’ve never felt like a second class citizen in his care which is what I was afraid of from some people who hear I’m Bipolar. I love this psychiatrist and feel secure in his care.

James Pratty destroyed my life as I knew it. He told my husband that I HAD to be hospitalized. He then told him I would only be in the hospital at Bellflower for three weeks. In three weeks, I didn’t even know what day it was. I was on several meds that I had never had the need to take before, EVER, in my life. Drugs for seizures,(never had a seizure in my life), hypnotism, this man had me totally convinced that I was a basket case that needed hospitalization Three weeks, turned into almost nine months, and then my insurance had maxed out, and not only was I dismissed from the hospital but also Dr. Pratty. This man had me so convinced I was MPD that I actually believed him. My initial problem was sleepwalking. and I thought he could help me with that and that is how it all began.
I trusted this man with my life, I believed him when he said he could help me. After, a few months of taking all those drugs, I started to pretend to take them, Thank God I did because when I was released I had no more insurance and the pills were so expensive, I just couldn’t afford them.
As I started getting better, I called Dr. Pratty and asked him for my journals, (he had me writing everyday in them), he said he had no idea what I was talking about. I knew then this man was not a good man. Just money hungry because I had such great insurance.
I am sure I am not the first one this man has fooled and I won’t be the last.