General Practitioner Or Psychiatrist

So like I mentioned in a earlier post, I ended up going to a general practitioner and not a psychiatrist to get my anti-anxiety prescribed medication. So at this point you might be wondering why I went to a family doctor and not a psychiatrist. The reason being is I went to psychiatrist before and it helped as much as it could. However I knew along with my psychiatrist I was going to need more help than just talking about my emotions and thoughts. I was going to need some type of prescription drugs and at the time my shrink was not able to prescribe medications to her clients.

So instead of seeking out a brand-new shrink who was able to prescribe medication I knew what I really just needed was to try medication therapy. After conducting a lot of research I was able to learn that a great deal of family doctors these days are well skilled in treating a variety of mental disorders. Unfortunately since mental disorders and emotional stress is so prevalent these days general practitioners have been literally forced to learn about it in order to better serve their patients.

Obviously I’m not a doctor so I can’t tell you what to do, however in my case I just needed to start the medication and see how it affects me. So just visiting my family Dr. works perfectly fine for me at the moment and if things change down the road I can always book an appointment with a psychiatrist. Like I said I’m not a trained health consultant however if you feel like a psychiatrist is not needed or your health insurance doesn’t cover it just remember your family physician can still help you. I have to be honest here if I had to start all over again I probably would’ve just gone straight to my family doctor for assistance instead of speaking to a mental health expert first.

At least in my case it was more of a chemical imbalance then a mental imbalance which was causing me my problems with high stress and anxiety levels. Just to be clear I’m not trying to change anybody’s mind about going to see a psychiatrist or the importance of seeing a psychiatrist. In the grand scheme of things psychiatrists are a very important part of the treatment matrix for mental disorders. Just in my case because of all the research I had been doing since I was a child I knew I was born with a chemical imbalance and really only medication can truly help that.