I started seeing a psychiatric nurse practitioner (along with a therapist) about 9 months ago because I felt like I had ridiculous mood swings &amp; crippling anxiety. To start off, the PNP gave me simple meds like hydroxyzine for the anxiety which did absolutely nothing so took me off it relatively soon. Then he gave me an antidepressant. 

Months go by and my moods continue to be all over the place. My PNP decides I fit the criteria for Bipolar 2 and prescribes me a mood stabilizer along with the anti depressant and a anti psychotic. I just got worse. He told me the antidepressant induced hypomania and eventually mania and the mood stabilizer made me suicidal. I was a hot mess. 

Finally, he decided to take me off the mood stabilizer and just have me take the antipsychotic and the antidepressant. Again, did nothing to help my mental health!! He only tried 1 mood stabilizer that made me worse and when I asked him why we can’t try a different one he couldn’t give me a direct answer. 

Now he decides to take me off the antidepressant because at this point I’m manic and out of control. And gives me a NDRI to take with the antipsychotic. I went off the NDRI because the side effects were uncomfortable (I was only on it for 3 days) so the efficacy of it obviously wouldn’t show yet. My next appt he tells me to just take the antipsychotic and can’t give me anything else because “everything” has made me worse. (In reality, “everything he tried” was 1 mood stabilizer &amp; 1 NDRI). 

I tell him I’m hyper, anxious, depressed etc and he tells me my depression is “not that bad, just a minor inconvenience”. He increases the antipsychotic by 50mg and sends me on my way and says to come back in 1 month. Meanwhile I’m off my rocker and depressed as can be. And he refuses to say bipolar instead he calls it a mood disorder and now doesn’t even refer to it as that. 

Sorry this is so long, but I needed to get this off my chest and to vent. What are you guys’s thoughts on this? Should I drop the PNP &amp; go find a Psychiatrist or do you think it’s just me and maybe I’m not bipolar it’s just psychosomatic?? I understand meds are tricky but this is just ridiculous. It’s been 9 months and I’m back to being as bad as I was when I first sought help. Either way I’m dissatisfied with my provider lol. Thoughts !!!????