I felt exactly like you at one point. I decided I was either going to try to get help one last time or else do something to hurt myself or worse. I went on my insurance website and found a psychiatrist. She was great, I got meds from her and I saw her for 50 minutes a week for therapy. She was really active and gave me a lot of suggestions and comments. I was able to tell her things I could never share with anyone else. Since then I had to move and I changed providers. I saw two psychiatrists who either were unsympathetic or simply didn't want to adjust my meds and would only see me for 15 mins. I kept trying different ones until I found another good psychiatrist. She talks to me for 50 minutes and is really helpful. Most people see a psychiatrist and a psychologist. You can do what I did and go straight to a psychiatrist if you want. Ideally you would want to work with a therapist and a psychiatrist and have them talk to each other and coordinate your care. Eventually your therapist will know more about you than your psychiatrist so it's important that he/she stay in contact with your psychiatrist. It takes time for meds to work sometimes one to three months. Also therapy takes time, you might not get into deep issues for feel comfortable until ten sessions go by so it's really important that you stick with it. The best advice I can give is if you have a unhelpful family doctor, psychiatrist, or therapist change providers don't quit. I have had bad and great psychiatrist, therapists, and family doctors. You have to seek out the good ones. You might get lucky and find great ones your first try but if you don't connect with them try new ones.

Also about therapists, there are basically three kinds. There are social workers, master degree level therapists, and PHD level psychologists. Social workers have usually the least education and PHD psychologist have the most. So I would say look for a master degree level therapist or someone with a phd. My therapist has a phd and that's helpful because I studied philosophy so I talk a lot about that stuff and she is able to understand what I'm talking about and to challenge me. Now there are bad phd psychologists, they arnt all great, it's important to find someone with a style you like and with whom you feel you can make a connection.

Hope I helped, this is all just from my experiences.