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Originally Posted by Medicated
I have a follow-up appointment in ten days, but I'm moving out-of-state and starting with a new psychiatrist in a month. I have enough meds to get me through until then, and I'd rather disappear than lie to my current psychiatrist again. Do I cancel my appointment and just vanish? Do I tell him the truth and let him get mad at me?
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You are an adult and this is your health. Taking no meds for me wouldn't be an option. I have had that conversation with my p-doc that I needed a med change and a week before I went to see her I went completely off my lithium. That was not a good decision and my mood was all over the place even when she got me on the lamictal. It was not a good decision, but I learned a valuable lesson I need meds.
Keeping secrets is stressful and instead of completely writing off your p-doc that what he prescribed was too much perhaps go see him and be honest about how you're feeling. I was scared to admit to my p-doc too that I had went off my meds, but really it was silly. I'm an adult and yes it was a poor decision, but she wasn't going to punish me.