Hi. I've been treated for just about everything now, depression, anxiety, bipolar II, borderline personality disorder. I was finally diagnosed with cPTSD 2 years ago.
Throughout the late 2000s I was in the "care" of psychiatrists. As a result I spent 2½ years on an overdose level of clonazepam, and for six years had all of the SSRI and SNRIs, several "mood stabilizers" and several other drugs that I can't remember pushed on me ("well, if you won't follow my suggestions we can't treat you anymore").
Ever since, my balance is off, I fall, I have extreme PWS from the benzodiazepines, I still suffer from depression and anxiety, Parkinsonism, etc., in some cases more profoundly and more often than before.
It's been over ten years now. Most of the time I can manage to exist functionally but SAD makes it all worse. I'm in my sixties now and all of the symptoms are increasing and worsening. Does this sound familiar to anybody? I don't have anyone to ask here, we have a brutally primitive health care system and the stigma around mental health issues is as bad as ever.
What kind of a doctor can help diagnose the cause/effect of these drugs?
TIA
Throughout the late 2000s I was in the "care" of psychiatrists. As a result I spent 2½ years on an overdose level of clonazepam, and for six years had all of the SSRI and SNRIs, several "mood stabilizers" and several other drugs that I can't remember pushed on me ("well, if you won't follow my suggestions we can't treat you anymore").
Ever since, my balance is off, I fall, I have extreme PWS from the benzodiazepines, I still suffer from depression and anxiety, Parkinsonism, etc., in some cases more profoundly and more often than before.
It's been over ten years now. Most of the time I can manage to exist functionally but SAD makes it all worse. I'm in my sixties now and all of the symptoms are increasing and worsening. Does this sound familiar to anybody? I don't have anyone to ask here, we have a brutally primitive health care system and the stigma around mental health issues is as bad as ever.
What kind of a doctor can help diagnose the cause/effect of these drugs?
TIA