 

I have dealt with debilitating health anxiety and OCD since my parents unexpectedly died when I was a kid (random heart attack at 34, breast cancer at 40). I have avoided meds all my life but now I am 31 with three kids and enough is enough. I know I need meds. I was prescribed zoloft 50mg after my last baby 4 months ago but my health anxiety makes me refuse to take it (vicious cycle).

I need to see someone -- but who? A psychologist? A psychiatrist? Some kind of special OCD therapist?

Here's what I deal with -- I stay up all night for multiple nights in a row on google, reddit, and facebook convincing myself I have some random disease. It will consume me for like 4 days before I move on to the next obsession. Every little heart rate increase convinces me I dying of a heart attack. I'm so irritable when one of my kids interrupts me while Im obsessively scrolling through google about my health problem. I do beleive the anxiety is accompanied by depression. Mind you I am still 4 months postpartum from my babys birth but I have dealt with this well before now.

My insurance covers mental health. I just don't know who to book with? Is it true a psychologist cannot prescribe meds? Will the zoloft I have from my midwife help with all of the above? UGHHHHHHHHHHHH!