That is a very hard thing to bring up. I'm not sure I'd trust a GP to deal with psychotropic medications, because they aren't really qualified and often don't get it right. It seems to be trial and error anyway though, and sometimes you don't have a pdoc available. Do talk to him about it, even if you will go to a pdoc later. One way to make it easier to bring it up would be to ask your therapist to write a note to your doctor. Or you could even write your doctor a note and give it to him. Once you've written it down it's much easier to just ask him to read the note than to try to bring the subject up verbally.

They don't usually hospitalize people just for suicidal thoughts. If you don't think you are going to act on it, and you can give a reason why you are not going to act on it, they won't lock you up. Go ahead and talk about it - it's one of the symptoms that needs to be treated. As long as you aren't actually a danger to yourself or others they won't take away your freedom. Last February when I was picked up because I had hurt myself, they let me go after a couple of hours even though I had already hurt myself, I admitted to feeling suicidal, and had a method. But I said that I wouldn't do it because it would hurt my family, so they let me go. The fact that you are asking about medication to get better is in your favor too. Doctors and therapists are there to help you, not hurt you, right? It will be okay.

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Wendy

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