Posted by CEK on April 4, 2006, at 13:23:39
Without having to check yourself into the hospital, how do you get help right now? Every doctor I've called has a six week waiting list. I don't want to go back into the hospital because other than a "vacation" away from my family they did nothing else for me! I don't know what to do. My pdoc has taken me off of everything he has put me on except 50mg of Seroquel and that does nothing other than knock me out and make me feel like crap the next day. He says there's nothing more that we can do right now since the ADs that I took didn't do any good. He stopped the Lamictal that I'd been on for a month because I started a rash after taking Bactrim for a kidney infection and stopped the Zoloft because of the side effects of that and the Seroquel. I have nothing now and I feel very bad. I suffer from major depression, anxiety and panic attacks, compulsive overeating and bipolar 2 with rapid cycling. I told him today how bad I feel and he just dismissed it. I feel so angry to the point of breaking things or hurting someone or myself and I'm wanting to eat everything in the house. The anxiety and depression are more than I can stand and all he could tell me was that he'd make me an appointment for next week to see what we could discuss trying. He said that the stopping of the Lamictal would not be causing these symptoms and since nothing else has worked(all I've tried are ADs.) he didn't know what else we could do. He told me to talk to my psychologist tomorrow when I go for my appointment about the anger and eating. He said there was not a medicine that could help with this! I guess he thinks the thoughts of suicide are bs and that waiting until tomorrow for a 45 minute therapy session is going to fix this. Must be nice to sit behind his desk and say,"Oh well." I'm not him and I guess I'm not his problem so who cares if I live or not? What do you do for help right away?
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