Posted by Garnet71 on September 13, 2009, at 12:27:55
In reply to Was Psychiatry your 'last resort' ?, posted by herpills on September 9, 2009, at 11:47:57
No, I'd see a specialist for any mental health problem as opposed to a generalist. My PCP first identified my depression years ago; I didn't even know what depression was...real ignorant about the subject. She prescribed me Zoloft and Xanax and referred me to a PDoc. I was so scared to take "brain" meds at first-she had to talk me into it.
I would recommend this to anyone with chronic mental health issues (as opposed to an acute episdode): go to an older (experienced) PDoc who also practices psychotherapy. I wish I had done that years ago, but again, I was ignorant - I didn't know they existed.
Another benefit I recently discovered is that these types of Pdocs aren't all weird about prescribing drugs outside of the xxRI class, such as d-amp, or whatever else might help with specific symptoms. On the other hand, the younger PDocs I've seen-and there were several-would only prescribe me xxRIs, despite the fact those drugs were making me worse off than before (although they initially worked fine).
Maybe this is predominate where I live, or w/the type of insurance I used to have, but this is my experience after going to now, let me count...8 PDocs total, over the period of about 9 years...
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