If you are truly bipolar, there are meds that will definitely help you and that is probably why the t. wants you to see a psychiatrist. For you, to take the best care of you. From my experience, pdocs don't deal with you in the detail that a t. would. You can talk in more generalities and summaies--it's not therapy, it's just assessing you for a diagnosis and prescribing medicine. After the initial consultation, appointments with a pdoc are normally about 15 minutes. It may not be as bad as you are fearing and it really may help. Also, all of these people are bound by their ethics not to discuss your particulars with anyone else so your "realm" goes to them and what you have told them and no further.

I'm glad you have the appointment with the proper person to prescribe for you. I hope you can accept this and go through with it. It will ultimately result in you feeling much, much better I think.

While I am depressive, I have three in my family who are bipolar and we all need our pdocs and our meds. To quote Martha Stewart, "it's a good thing".