IMO Family Doctors shouldn't be allowed to treat any kind of mental illness....because....here it comes.....they have no idea how to treat it. Only an actual psychiatrist should be allowed to diagnose you, since that is what they specialize in.

As you can tell, I don't like Family Doctors, because A.) They think a little zoloft will help anything, B.) They don't quite understand how when you are bipolar, that, yeah, if you just stick someone on anti-depressants, there's this slight chance, just slightly, that they may go manic, C.) They push whatever drug that the drug reps are pushing, like Lexapro.....that was bad stuff.

So that was ages 16-18.

Finally, I convince my parents to take me to see a Psych, and it took me talking all of about 15 minutes, before he diagnosed me BP II & OCD.

Then when I was 19, after going to 4 more psych's, I finally found my current one, and she piled on ADHD to the diagnoses.

Finally, 6 years later, I've found a pretty good combo of meds and feel the best I have felt in a while. Yes, I still have crap days, but they are becoming less.