I have had an incredible Psychiatric PA who was gone out if her way to educate me by giving me books and teaching me about how meds work. She has been willing, after my own prompting and reasearch to try WAY out of the box off label therapies.

I know the dunces that are out there (i worked as a chaplin in a Psych-hospital and have spent many days in them as a patient ). We use to joke about how many PDocs are PDocs because they couldnt get into any other residency programs. BUT there really are some amazing, caring Docs and PAs that want you to get better. The big trick is finding them.

I would say, and this is just me, any doc who told me to stop being negative would fall into the dunce category. I know that, for me, being negative is part of my mental illness and when I am being that way it means something is wrong and needs attention. Its like telling someone with highblood pressure, "stop having high blood pressure!" Bogus, I think.

Keep asking around: your other docs even if they have nothing to do with mental illnesses, especially docs that you like because as my grandma use to say, "birds of a feather flock together."

The hopelessness of it all can be so yucky I know.