I understand that one should go for counseling/therapy through psych services, but I also heard one has to go to a general physician to get referred to one? I already know of a therapist, so should i go to a physician or seek a therapist first?
2007-01-21 04:49:36 · 6 answers · asked by The lit hexagon 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
If you go to your gen physician they will ask you a series of questions to determine if you have General Anxiety Disorder. If they then decide you need counsellng/therapy and your insurance requires a referal you can tell the doc the one you want to go to.
Otherwise, the doctor would probably just put you on some medicine themselves.
2007-01-21 04:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best way to see mental disorders is a series of varying degrees of depression and stress. Mild stress produces an excellent person for creativity and performance. More depression saps the energy and creativity that these people once had as the leave neurosis and become bipolar. There are three levels used to describe Bipolar. Then the imbalance of chemicals made by your own brain plays havoc with the whole control system. The auto brain or lower brain can aggressively access messages that were kept from it earlier. As the depression continues and more and more logic substitutions are made the mind goes into a full psychosis where ideas are disassociated and language decays. The end result of psychosis from severe depression is schizophrenia which has been described as incurable . There are of course are always a few people who have been able to recover mental stability. The greatest learning step required for all levels of depression recovery is to see that society as two groups . Study what you group are in and stay with your own kind to find peace and happiness.
2007-01-21 05:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am so happy, it was only a 35 minute drive ( 70 minutes total) but absolutely no sign of anxiety or panic i shopped till I dropped - brilliant! I will now go for the next stage DUAL CARRIAGE way, probably at the weekend, with my husband accompanying me first then the solo drive, if successful the final stage of driving on motorway
Beat Anxiety And Panic Attacks Naturally?
2016-05-17 01:45:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An antidepressant is pretty much the standard treatment for anxiety disorders. Any physician can write that prescription.
2007-01-21 05:04:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a physcian (of neurology) was able to tell me I had GAD without having to see a therapist. All a doctor will do is give you a couple of sheets of questionaires and you answer them to the best, then they briefly analyze them, talk to, do a brief no brainer analysis of you and then write you off a perscriptoion of some generic zoloft and send you on your way.
2007-01-21 04:53:41 · answer #5 · answered by Ask a Health Nut 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you will be needing a "Referral". I have to go too Mental Health for my Anxiety Attacks, and I just hate going to these places!!! They make me feel as though, I have something really seriously wrong with me, they also make me feel as though their all "Playing God".....and like your under a Microscope, while under their care!! I really dislike those places, but I have to go to them in order to get my anxiety meds!!! I was like a "Guniea Pig" for years, when they were trying to get me on the right medication, for it!!! And during those years, I had to miss work, and go to the Emergency Room for Buspar, then I had paramedics at my house atleast once a month, it seemed in those days, for certain medicines they'd try on me!!! Those were "Nightmare Days" for me!!! Especially when not only was the medicines they had me trying made my anxiety worse, but I also got depressed because I thought they were never going to help me get it under control , you know...... I'm now on Diazepam, its generic for Valume, and its the only thing that helps me!!! I've tried them all, I do believe!!! Paxil, Prozac, Buspar, Elivil, you name it, I've tried it!!! So, good luck to you.. But, just to be safe, I would go to your Primary Care Physician and get a Referral, to play it safe, in case they will be needing one, you'll already have it in your hand, you know...
2007-01-21 05:07:52 · answer #6 · answered by Hmg♥Brd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would go to your general physician and ask for that psychiatrist by name.
The psychiatrists don't take 'people off the street'.
2007-01-21 04:57:53 · answer #7 · answered by poutine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋