going private

I think if your psychiatrist isn't adjusting your meds,it may be worth considering that they know what's best. Sometimes it's difficult, but they have considerable amounts of training which we just don't have.dealing with mental health issues is about all sorts of things and can take considerable time and effort on everyone's side, I think if you go private just for the purpose of looking for more meds - I don't think youll be successful I'm afraid. I'm not saying that your physchiatrist is right and your wrong,and a second opinion is not a bad thing,but I think realistically I don't think it's the best way to go. I would discuss it openly with your current psychiatrist and voice your concerns first

I think actually a change of therapy may help more, CBT doesn't always work, its a therapy that is often used first, and isn't actually in my experience very good. There are other more effective types of therapy,maybe discuss this first?

Hi Glenn, sorry to hear. I have had anxiety and tension all my life. I cope by swimming ,reflexology and aromatherapy! This keeps me going. I am also a carer for my disabled hubby. I am just over 4 months post hip replacement! So a lot of stress on my shoulders! I find the health food shops helpful with tension and anxiety. Have you tried Bach flower remedies? Good luck.regards Amanda

Hi Glenn,

not wishing to pry but what meds and what duration? Are you saying you have been unwell for weeks, months, years etc. I know when I saw my Psychiatrist I felt a bit let down but the truth was not that I needed to change my meds, I needed to change my life.

Glen thank you for your immense words regarding noit changing the meds but chanhing your life

I needed to hear that for myself.

I have been living in a Housing crisis from hell, I am to be evicted from my home in 10 days time, I have no finance to even get a removal man to take my furniture away and then to put it into storage while i am living on the street with severe and complex heath issues , if left on the street in my situation I have othing to look forward too but becoming unwell with infection and to die pretty soon.

Going down the private route to get a 2nd opinion If i were you I would try to avoid.

As it has been said that you are more than likely going to be told the same thing again and for all that money it really isnt worth it, instead I would invest the money into working on the core issues of why Anxiety is interupting your life and disabling you from having a full and wondeful life.

I am myself been going through periods of just wanting to die knowing how cruel and immesnsly painful people are towards me and when it comes to the mental health professionals I find myself frustrated and almost outraged at what they come out with and say to me.

While these professionals dont even know who i am nor where my life has been.

I am the opposite to you as they suggested they increase my prozac for the depression I have which began at 20 mgs a day and since last year was upped to 40 mg they wanted me to double it again and as for the diaxipam for the multiple acute anxiety attacks I have been having which often require an ambulance to be called (2 in a day ) recently. I just feel in my heart that these meds are killing my organs and I need to find a whole better way that to just be drugged up to the hilt and zombied out, I deserve better than this and so do you my dear comrade and freind.

If you can afford to go private then please consider finding a much healthier alternative for yourself there are often well being weekends away that could beneift people like yourself , id love to be able to afford to do things like this.

I truly believe Professionals are just trained pros, they mean well and are only follwoing thier learned process of treating us, but they themselves mostly have never experienced what we do often on a daily basis.

How can they ever understand

The answers to our pain and anxiety and this disability honestly lay deep within us.

Once I am through this truam and know where i and my carer are to live then I want to find a btter way for myself to live and to find the answers that are already in side me and to come to the place where i can be set free from my distress that i cant cope with.

Hugs

and best wishes my Freind 

PJ