Whats the difference between a practitioner and a psychiatrist? I’ve been assigned a nurse practitioner to handle my medications and I don’t know if this is normal or not. The initial meeting he screened me for depression and anxiety both tested high, he diagnosed me with both. I see them every month now to fix my meds and the appts just center around medications and him talking the whole appointment. I don’t get a chance to tell them whats really going on. How can you prescribe meds to someone when you barely even know whats wrong with them… I’ve not been able to bring up my extreme paranoia and other concerning things. I can’t get a word in. I’ve never seen an actual psychiatrist before. Are they different? Or the same?