My appointments are 15 minutes every other month. He refuses to see me more often, and seems to believe that because I'm not locked up somewhere, I'm fine and everything is in my head... He had me seriously questioning my Dx and considering giving up meds, until I thought about my life & past (yikes!)

Anyway... I think he's kind of a pompous ***, but I don't have much choice to but to stick with him, and wouldn't really want to start all over again anyway, since he's #3 in about a year and a half...

When we first started meeting, we discussed changing my meds because they aren't working, and he wasn't comfortable with what I was on. He wanted to switch me to Lithium or Depakote & valium. I was completely on board, and we agreed to lower my lamotrigine to prepare. Then, at my next appointment, he said nothing about switching my meds, and had a med student present, so I wasn't comfortable *****ing him out then... Um, I mean bringing it up.

When I try to bring things up with him, he doesn't seem to get it. He seems to think, like I said, that if I'm not locked up somewhere against my will, that I'm fine and don't need meds at all. I feel like he isn't listening at all. Just a few days ago, I got into a verbal altercation with a total stranger in the grocery store. I clearly need medication, and more of it.

How can I get him to listen to me?? I just want to be stable enough to go back to work so I can have real insurance, and go back to pdoc #1, but he seems to think there's nothing wrong with flying off the handle 20x a day and SI for 6 months straight. I kind of want to stop taking all my meds and just go in and rage on him!

What do I do??