Yikes. Your old pdoc sounds like a quack. No offense.
I'm glad you found a pdoc who takes you seriously and agrees to follow up with you.
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Bipolar/BPD
Abilify 5mg
Prozac 40mg
Fish oil and vitamin D
"Of course it is happening inside your head Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?"
-Albus Dumbledore