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Originally Posted by ultramar
Welcome!
I don't know what country you come from, but here usually psychiatrists (not psychologists) diagnose and prescribe the medications -I'm curious why you were referred to your GP instead of a psychiatrist for meds? As someone else said, I'm of the mind that psychiatrists know so much more than GP's and are the best to prescribe these types of meds, there are so many out there and it's so complicated.
As far as anxiety, I suffer from this as well. The Seroquel I take for the bipolar has ended up helping me a lot with anxiety, mostly because it's basically a gigantic sledgehammer to the head -and with a big price to pay -the side effects are terrible. So I'd only recommend it with a great deal of caution and caveats -it has helped me a lot, though, both with mania and anxiety.
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Hi there! Thanks for getting back to me, I was originally diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety but then as we got talking more I think she noticed that I was having really severe and reckless manic episodes and really suicidal depressive states in like the past 3 years. She just said that she will speak to my GP and I have to book an appointment to get on mood stabilisers. Thats as much as I know about what's going to happen.. i'm hoping my GP will give me more insight. I think I'll ask him to refer me to a psychiatrist to get a second option.