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Originally Posted by ultramar
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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I do live in the US. I'm going to a pdoc in Mississippi where I go to college but the other doctor was in Maryland where I live and went for spring break.
I think it's at least part of the picture. I have a lot of days where I'm really really depressed, a lot of days where I'm hyper - psychotically happy or raging angry and can't just sit down and shut up, and a few days where I'm neither and can actually get a lot of things done (hyperness usually gets so bad I can't settle down to do ANYthing).
I have a mood journal, but he didn't want to hear about my moods. He was just certain I'm super depressed. I don't think I'm going to have another apt with him because of a few reasons, not just how I feel about him. Money is a big part of it, too, and next semester I will qualify for free (or at least a heck of a lot cheaper than $50 for a ten minute session!) pdoc and T apts elsewhere.
Even if Abilify does end up working, it's just the principle that he didn't seem to want to hear about anything that contradicted his preconceived notions about me - even if they came form another doctor who saw me for a lot more time and saw just how horrible my mood swings can get (I almost threw a table at her once and she's also seen the super happy hyper and the really depressed, too).