Posted 4/14/2017 10:34 PM (GMT 0)
You said:
"I wish there was a psychologist to talk to. The counselor here I had before wasn't much help and I don't know about a psychiatrist, I assume they are med pushers like the md's?? "
Yes, psychiatrists are medical doctors who can prescribe pills.
You said in your first post:
"This is the first time I have had an attack in a while. Heart rapid, sweating, nausea, numbness, scared to death."
And: "I was so afraid I was going to have to go to the hospital."
Well, according to our description, you're having it very rough.
If you were coming down with pneumonia, and you were: "Heart rapid, sweating, nausea, numbness, scared to death" wouldn't you be glad to go to a "med pusher like an md??" to get some medicine.
Some would say, why would you go to a pill pusher doctor to treat pneumonia, but absolutely refuse to see a psych medical doctor for anxiety because he is a pill pusher? Some would say, there is no difference between the two. I would be one of them.
If you think psych doctor's meds are not good for your brain, I don't think having anxiety attacks are good for you brain, either. I've heard that each such event can make you worse.
Untreated psychiatric conditions I believe surely make a person worse. I had depression for 3 weeks, and for not treating it by going to a psych doctor and getting anti-depressants, I got worse: I had a nervous breakdown, and considered myself lucky that I recovered.
I don't ever want to temp that fate again.
As a bipolar, I take Lithium and an anti-depressant, and I take it gladly. I know what it was like before I took those meds.
You say: "I wish I could just go to sleep but my body keeps jumping."
Ough. That sounds pretty rough. You know, back in the 1800s, they didn't have medicine that could help that. To have those meds and not consider taking them is a world record.
You said, "We have an appt Saturday. I had talked to the mental health dept here earlier to find out what I would need. I wish there was a psychologist to talk to. The counselor here I had before wasn't much help and I don't know about a psychiatrist."
Well, it sounds like you are on the right road. I just talked to my psychiatrist on Monday. I talked to her like she was a psychologist.
One reason I wasn't having a whole lot of problems was because I am on Lithium for my mania (it reduces mania, and helps lift depression) and Mirtazapine anti-depressant, which keeps me from being depressed.
So, I didn't have a whole lot to complain about, I wasn't depressed, I wasn't manic. So I was asking her how she was doing. We talked about recent sporting event, that was about it.
A lot of times mental illness can be inherited. Did your mother or father have emotional problems? It's just as physical as pneumonia.
Did a grandparent have emotional problems, for traits can skip a generation, and the parents might not have had it? Ask your parents if one of their parents had such problems.
Let us now how Saturday's appointment goes.