Posted by tina on June 6, 2000, at 16:37:41
In reply to someone please please help!!!!!!!, posted by ryan_s on June 6, 2000, at 16:01:38
Do you have a family doctor who knows you well and would help you out?
> can someone please help me out here. i am a college student in dayton, oh that has been diagnosed with depression and anxiety. after being diagnosed with these psych disorders i was put on a variety of antidepressants and antianxiety medications (i will save you the time of listing them all because i have tried over 12). yes, ssri's, nari's, antipsychotics, and anticonvulsants have been tried with no help whatsoever, which makes me think that i am not depressed. the frustration from switching and from one medication from another was one of the most frustrating processes in my life. the fact that most antidepressants take two weeks to kick in did not help my impatient urge to feel good about myself.
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> about two weeks ago i found a 20 mg pill of adderral in my room (my roomate left this behind by accident upon moving out of our house for the summer). when i found this pill,i had been off of any kind of psych drug for three months. at first i was hesitant to try a drug that had not been perscribed to me, but then i thought "i have been on over 12 psychiatric drugs;what is one more pill going to do to me". that night i decided to give adderall a go. to my surprise this drug was the best thing that ever happened to me. i actually wanted to talk to people, i wanted to get up off of my couch and do something, i no longer had an urge to look away when talking to others, and did not feel the need to fidget. adderall blew all of the other antidepressants and antianxiety drugs out of the water. adderall actually made me feel like myself.
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> here is where things get tricky. since i had such a good experience with adderall, i wanted to see if a psychiatrist would perscribe it to me. i looked in the phone book under the yellow pages for psychiatrist. do not do that, because there is no section. finally i found a section labeled mental health. upon calling the listed numbers, most of the practices either were for outpatient only or did not have a psychiatrist, period. to make a long story short, i found a number to a psychiatrist that i visited a year and a half ago. i visted dr. fitz today confident that she would perscribe me adderall. i told her straightforward, "i do not want to take anymore antidepressants (they only made my depression worse) and that i shadily tested adderall myself." after one hour of trying to convince dr. fitz that i might be ADD, she gave me a sample of effexor. she said that adderall is to easily abused. i do not care if it is easily abused because i am not an addictive type person. all i know is that the one night of being on adderall made life worth getting excited for again.
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> i do not know what to do at this time. i am sick of getting the run around by calling random numbers under mental health in the yellow pages. all that i want is a pdoc that will listen to my needs, and one that is also in the dayton, oh area. if anyone can help me please reply. thank you so much.
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> frustrated,
> ryan
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