Sad story. I know when I was switching medications (getting off Lithium due to kidney problems) I was watched very closely & my provider saw me every week until I was stabilized. She also told me to call her any time I started to feel suicidal or manic.

The trouble is sometimes you feel so badly that you don't think you are worth bothering someone with a phone call. You think people would be better off without you & you see no end to the pain.

My mother committed suicide & I always wondered why they kept letting her out of the mental hospital when I was growing up. I knew she was bad off, how come the docs didn't? My dad finally started the process of having her involuntarily committed, but she killed herself before that was done.

This doc doesn't sound very caring. I can see how a doc can get burned out dealing with all the patients with mental illnesses. They are human, too. The family also needs to be educated & perhaps having a family member staying with him during the time of his medication change should have been brought up. --Suzy