I have to wait because it's a whole health insurance mess. I live in a state that has universal health care. Basically, if you live here you can get insurance through employer or if not employed or disabled or in any other situation you apply through the state. They let you know then what you are eligible for. My insurance is fully subsidized and when they responded, I had five or six different insurance providers to pick from. I chose the one that best met my needs...but as we all know, mental health care is just not given enough attention. Ok, so within my insurance provider they have a separate group that handles all mental health services, so I have to use them for my insurance to cover it. Or I can see my GP or whatever. In general I have great insurance and I love it--it's free for me and I pay $1-$3 for a month prescription (unless it's a brand name they just won't cover at all...grrr...but that's not very many). That's all I have to pay for (and after really never having access to doctors or medical treatment or even health insurance before, this feel like a dream of some sort). So anyway, once I got here I had to go through this intake process with the organization who provides mental health/psych services for my insurance provider. Turned out there was a waiting list, so I went on it, and in the meantime, to stay on the list, I have to see (really just to touch base with) my assigned social worker/therapist. We don't do therapy. We just touch base every few weeks and make sure everything is ok. And it's all in the same hospital, so my GP, the soc worker, and my eventual pdoc can all work together with the meds etc. SO (this is a long story, eh?) I got a call saying I was off the list and had an appt Aug 10. Then it got canceled and now the early sept thing. But I got a call today and I'm in with a pdoc On Aug 31. Pretty much earliest available. So that's the deal with the psych appt stuff.

As for the Lamictal/Wellbutrin combo, I really truly do think it worked wonders for me for a while. I swear by the brand name, though, and I think the reason it's no longer really working for me is because I've been mostly on the generic with a few months here and there of the real thing. There's such a difference (in my opinion) that I think it just hurt me more than helped. I should have just been consistent with either the generic or brand. Wellbutrin is a med I LOVE!!!! It's activating and gave me energy. And it WORKED. None of the usual anti-deps work for me--my issue seems to be dopamine. But I've been on it for two years so maybe it's just petered out? Either way, the combo worked very well for me. Until it didn't (probably for reasons mentioned above). I'm still on both of them...we're just slowly tweaking to see what is working and what isn't.