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Originally Posted by cashart10
I know what it feels like to be in doctor limbo but at least I have one lined up. I can't imagine how you must be feeling. Is there a GP that is well enough familiar with BP who can work with you until you find someone who is accepting new patients?
I am so sorry also that you are feeling down. Can you maybe just say, "yeah, a little" to your mom when she asks if you are depressed? Maybe that would start a small conversation. Or would that be too much? It's sounds like she is a little over the top. I have a close relationship with my mom so it makes me so sad when folks aren't.
As far as advice for keeping the depression as far at bay as possible, listen to Christina! Her ideas are wonderful and will work!
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After I was in the hospital last, I was so shell shocked from the entire experience I made an appointment with my GP to make sure there wasn't anything physically wrong with me. I told the nurse I wanted to talk about mental health issues.
When my GP found out I wasn't a depressed person, she kind of freaked and said she needed to get me into psychiatry right away, and she got me an appointment with a psychiatrist really fast, but I decided to stay with the pnp I was seeing (who is now leaving!) because she was in town, and for the other person it was a forty five minute drive.
So, if I don't hear back from my my pnp today or tomorrow, I'm going to call my GP and ask her if she can refer me to that same psychiatrist again, or to someone else.
Unfortunately I can't talk to my mom about feeling depressed. In the past when I tried, I always just got "well, you weren't like that before!", and "the meds you're on are just making it worse! why are you on that stuff? you need to get off of it".
It is sad.
When I had PPD my husband was actually appalled by how my mom and sister didn't take it seriously, even if I was in the hospital because of it. And my mom didn't help at all when I got out of the hospital. It would have been nice to get some help from my mom. If my mother-in-law lived in town I know she would have helped me. His family takes my MI more seriously than my own family! His mom is always telling me that I can call and talk to them whenever I want.