@JaneOnceMore - Yeah, I've had some BAD psychiatrists too. The worst one told me I would surely kill myself and commit suicide if I stopped psych meds to get pregnant and have a child. H was with me at that appt. and he couldn't believe the gall of that woman and that was the end of that place, but we should have filed some complaint against her, I regret that I didn't now, but quite frankly, we were both in shock that a doctor would tell me something so horrible! And at that point, I had only been diagnosed with major depression not bipolar; it wasn't until my 30s when I showed up for a pdoc appt. in a full manic phase that my diagnosis got changed pronto to bipolar I. The psychiatrist who diagnosed me was fabulous though. I started seeing her when my daughter was around 6 weeks old, and she had me down as postpartum depression (though after she retired when I got my medical records from her, I saw she had question marks about possible bipolar up until I showed up manic at that appt.) I don't think I will ever have another pdoc as extraordinary as she was (even though she did get me on the clonazepam but she was pretty old school); her retirement hit me hard. My current pdoc is great, wonderful in fact (and he got me off clonazepam) but he doesn't have the same personal touch she did; he was a colleague of hers in the same clinic and does have many of the same practice type policies she had including the much needed after hours cell for emergencies that are not quite to the scope of 911 but still fairly urgent.