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Rainbowzz, most GPs or internists don't want to prescribe psych drugs because it just isn't their speciality. They'll usually give you a one-month refill, if you're seeing a psychiatrist but can't get in to see him before the Rx runs out. They aren't going to take full control of your psych care though.

You wouldn't have a gastroenterologist monitor and prescribe your cardiac meds.

Does that make more sense?

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It absolutely does. Its just extremely frustrating as I have been waiting for over six months now to get an appointment with a psych doctor (I'm in canada), and i guess i am just feeling a little left out in the cold by this "wait for the psychaiatrist" attitude that he has. I mean, where does that leave me in the mean time, yanno?

Rap,

yes, i know you are right. I DO, its just terribly frightening for me..disclosure is still something that even the thought of spins me for a loop quite often. Even the thought of telling someone else (only a small handful of my friends know, and I've been seperated physically from my family for about eight years, so they don't know either - they don't know about anything other than the depression and "fits" i used to have as a child")literally triggers me to the point where I feel an urge to run and hide It took me weeks to even go in and tell him about the mood swings a few months ago. But it is something I am trying very hard to work on. The pdoc that dxed me years ago I saw from the time I was 14 until I left home when I was 17, and she was wonderful but even with her it took me over a year to even talk about it. I was almost 17 before any "alters" or others came out in front of her. And then because I left, i also lost her as a therapist.

Davey j,

yeah, it is all a bit much. I mean, sometimes I get to the point when I can't even figure out what I am experiencing and what its coming from - sort of like "okay, well, i feel really scared" but then not knowing if its coming from a trigger, coming from a panic attack or something else. Well, i guess if nothing else I'm almost never bored

Hanging in there to see the psychdoc - they told me that it should be by the 25th of this month which is AWESOME.

I guess more than anything i am frustrated that because of our health care system taking so long, i sort of get left out in the cold - I mean I am not bad enough to require hospitalization i don't think, yet if I am suffering as often as I do from these feelings or symptoms, then obviously something is not working.

Thanks for your input guys. I feel a little better just having been able to spit out my feelings and frustrations.