Hello and welcome to MSF!

It doesn’t make sense to me either. If you were prescribed an antidepressant, it’s purpose is to treat depression. Depression is a diagnosis. Why would she prescribe a medicine for someone without any diagnosis? It is not logical.

She keeps a chart on patients. Insurance requires a diagnosis to pay her. She had to list a diagnosis in order to prescribe the med. I would assume your chart does list something as a diagnosis…but she refuses to tell you.

I have had this same thing happen to me with psy doctors. It seems it’s a strategy they use because they don’t want to tell patients a diagnosis. Research may have shown that people who know their diagnosis don’t recover as well as those who do not know perhaps???