Hey guys, I had my appointment today and I thought I'd tell you all how it went.

So it was just an hour, and me and him talked and then my mom came in and put her 2 cents in and then he told both of us what he thought - pretty average.

Me and him mostly talked about my mood disorder. He agreed with the dx of BP2. We also talked about how I was doing on meds, and he switched me from Seroquel to Lithium, with an emergency batch of Lorazepam (.5 mg tablets, 2 a day max) for anxiety. He said he wants to focus on one issue at a time.

He said for now he's going to get me into a 12-16 week bp program that helps with life skills and coping strategies, as well as 6-8 appointments with a social worker, and bi-weekly appointments with him. AS WELL, he's going to try and get me into a 4 week monday-friday inpatient program for mood disorders, but that'll take a few weeks to go through. Oh, and 30 min of exercise a day, at least.

My thoughts on it, it's good. I'm worried as hell about the Lithium, but I'm going to bring that up separately in a different topic. I'm hoping I have found some of the help I really need to make progress with myself. I'm excited and want to start now because I really want to get better, but am telling myself be patient. My mom is also happy, and my sister is glad that I'm getting treatment. Not all my friends are though, which is mostly where the worry about Lithium comes from.

I'm a bit disappointed that they're only focusing on the BP, while there's clearly other things involved in this. However, he is a BP specialist, and I trust that he knows what he's doing. Maybe in inpatient other people will notice the other things in me... maybe. Or maybe the social worker. Idk. I have hope though.

I'm upset a bit because I had to say goodbye to my T. We knew it was coming but I'm still upset. He's keeping my file open and I can call at any point, but I don't really have the $$, and with the new treatments starting I'm going to be well looked after.

Still holding in there. I'm in a depression right now, but I was worse earlier in the week. Hope you all are doing well too.