You're right -- I'll do that. I was extremely fortunate to find a good doctor. So many times women go to their OB/Gyn's or primary care physicians for mental health care, which I feel is a HUGE mistake. Those doctors do not specialize in the brain. How can they possibly know all there is to know about anti-depressants, including the lastest in studies, etc.?? I've been messed up more than once by well-meaning doctors who wrote me prescriptions for what they believed was a good anti-depressant, simply because they'd been educated by the drug rep. visiting their office. But I was too ill at the time to advocate for myself -- I just wanted the "magic pill" -and fast- to make me feel better so I could go about my life and care for my children. When I finally found an awesome psychiatric nurse practitioner, she considered the two of us a team and allowed me to be empowered to become educated in and participate in my care. She taught me that the well-meaning doctors had been a lot more detrimental than helpful in my care by feeding me a variety of anti-depressants and adjusting the doses up and down without knowing how that was affecting the wiring of my brain. I got stuck in a roller coaster of depression that I'm sure many people are caught in simply because they (and their doctors) don't know any better.
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You're right -- I'll do that. I was extremely fortunate to find a good doctor. So many times women go to their OB/Gyn's or primary care physicians for mental health care, which I feel is a HUGE mistake. Those doctors do not specialize in the brain. How can they possibly know all there is to know about anti-depressants, including the lastest in studies, etc.?? I've been messed up more than once by well-meaning doctors who wrote me prescriptions for what they believed was a good anti-depressant, simply because they'd been educated by the drug rep. visiting their office. But I was too ill at the time to advocate for myself -- I just wanted the "magic pill" -and fast- to make me feel better so I could go about my life and care for my children. When I finally found an awesome psychiatric nurse practitioner, she considered the two of us a team and allowed me to be empowered to become educated in and participate in my care. She taught me that the well-meaning doctors had been a lot more detrimental than helpful in my care by feeding me a variety of anti-depressants and adjusting the doses up and down without knowing how that was affecting the wiring of my brain. I got stuck in a roller coaster of depression that I'm sure many people are caught in simply because they (and their doctors) don't know any better.
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