Following through and still nothing

[LexiaFira]

short history: I went to a NAMI hosted class for women and depression which basically is a class that gives you many things and tools to help you deal with your depression and teaches you how to self manage without the dr lingo and other confusing things. Makes it easy to get and is a great help.

One of their main points was to advocate and follow through. That they provide you the tools, its up to you to use it and that its bad now but just take it one day at a time. The info they gave was more than helpful. However as they are not doctors/counselors/psychiatrists etc IE cannot actually prescribe you but CAN help its up to you the person to do the rest. /end

So after so long I finally pick up my behind and attempt to find a new dr and get this dealt with as my previous dr. moved. First i go to my counselor to tell her how severe its gotten and that I NEED help because I can no longer self manage. She passes me off to another counselor who specializes in this, getting me help of the medication kind.
Cut to the chase, why am i being sent to a ob/gyn? My birth control is not causing problems, in fact I've been on it for 6 months and it has not done me harm or made mood swings worse, its helped me greatly.
unless I am mistaken since when can a gyn prescribe mental meds?

all the people I have followed through with and advocated with have not really helped me, I just feel like I am being pushed off onto someone else until I go away. WTF. Why have this system to help if you aren't helping?
yes i love feeling like shit all the time and wanting to hurt people....I won't ever but i want those thoughts to go away.

[SkullKing]

I am sorry if you feel that way.

Maybe they need to be absolute sure about some stuff with an ob/gyn, before prescribing something. I have a friend and a cousin who had very serious problems with colateral effects of a medicine.

And just the fact you are following true is something. You haven´t given up. Getting out of inaction is a VERY hard thing to do, you already did something.

I wish you the best of luck.

[LexiaFira]

this may be true.
but why would i be sent to my gyen if i know for a fact I am having specific symptoms of something else that until now were not as severe

[tabbyblack13]

There are conditions that cause depression as a symptom. Your new Dr might want to try other coerces to make sure that your depression is true. If it is a symptom of something worst then the medication you are give may not work.

[Boozy]

unless I am mistaken since when can a gyn prescribe mental meds?

Unless the American system is much different than the Canadian one, any licensed doctor can legally prescibe any medication with only a few exceptions. The ony speed bump is ethics - most doctors won't prescribe medications they aren't familiar with, so they don't like to step outside their specialties.

However, SSRI's and the like are fairly common and broadly used. Most doctors are familiar with them, so most Canadians get their prescriptions from their primary care physicians. For women, this is often a OB/GYN.

Psychiatrists are too rare and too expensive to be dealing with run-of-the-mill depression. Most of them are busy with schizophrenics and other serious disorders. A quick prescription and some counselling with a therapist does the trick for most depression sufferers.

[LexiaFira]

for me i have had depression as long as i can recall, before i hit puberty because of the crud my bio dad did
during and after puberty because...thats how it was. maybe it is hormonal or other related? I just know I don't like being in the downward slope anymore. its back and forth of of really energetic and happy and spastic, or really sad and miserable and scary thoughts and sometimes suicidal.

if there is an inbetween is a gray area and i am still sad, but just mopey. if there is a happy i try very hard when in the middle to stay busy and positive because it is not bad where I am, it does not help I am secluded however that is partially my choice due to...bowel issues that have also gotten worse. (thats another subject it doesn't matter what I eat, just trying to become regulated in that area)

last night I had another episode and I had to get hubs up early to watch daughter so I could vent in privacy so daughter wouldn't see me like that

[LexiaFira]

ok.....so....i ate my own words and apologized. and here i am apologizing because my ob/gyn DID prescribe me some cymbalta.
I expected to be bounced to the next dr as was done back in texas, here, not so much.
wow...so yeah. thank you to those that posted and sent pms and helped me when i had my bad times. I am alot better now. I am FINALLY in that middle ground of even, not overly happy crazy euphoric, but not all the way in the dark depressed zone, i am finally in the middle and a little bit happy is good, and even being a little sad is ok too because it doesn't get worse or too much.

this is scary but only because i have forgotten what being in the middle feels like so it feels new again.

[SkullKing]

Happy to hear you are better, good luck.

[LexiaFira]

still in adjustment period. only major complaint is how sleepy and unfocused it makes me but i can generally make it through the day.
however i can go lower in dosage if needed. trying one pill for every two days and that works alot better

thanks skullking

[jackfaire]

MDs can prescribe any medication of any kind.

Being a mental doctor doesn't give you special ability to prescribe anything.

Psychiatrists and Psychologist for example are the same except for one thing. The former is a Medical Doctor, MD and can prescribe you medication whereas the latter is a PhD and cannot.

It has nothing to do with that they both treat the mind and everything to do with the fact that the MD had training in things like how those medications will affect you physically.