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Apr 08, 2013, 07:28 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by comicgeek007
I saw him for the second time.ever today. He still won't let me talk to him directly outside of 10 minute appointments. He's CONVINCED I'm just really.depressed and i'm not crazy enough to be bipolar and my mood swings mean NOTHING. I was about ready to cry during the apt because I couldn't get him.to understand how disruptive this lack of sleep and inability to sit down and shut up and horrible racing thoughts thing is. He switched me to abilify instead of seroquel because abilify is more for major depression and crap. He thought the doc in the hospital was a moron because she's american. Even though she saw me and talked to me WAY more than this pompous ***hole. He wants me to bump up my Zoloft because I'm "so depressed"!
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Aside from the racing thoughts, etc., are you feeling depressed? How people experience depression can really run the gamut, including insomnia, even mood swings. I'm not saying your psychiatrist is right, though, at all. Mostly wondering if you think depression might be part of the picture.
(As an aside, it sounds like you live outside the States? I think American psychiatrists in some other countries have the reputation of over-diagnosing. Not saying he's right or wrong not to agree with that doctor, just that that might be where he's coming from, he might be prejudiced in that respect).
Maybe if you start a mood journal and share it with him? It can be hard to express ourselves as well as we'd like in such a short appointment (and more so if it ends up being contentious), so maybe if you write things down and bring it to your next appointment, it will be helpful. Good luck.
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