I need hairpats. Today is my first ever appointment with a psychiatrist. Who comes highly recommended, and I'm sure will be able to help with my anxiety, insomnia, and the hellacious mood swings as perimenopause bears down on me. But I'm nervous.

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I keep thinking I need to talk to a professional, but I don't want to go to the trouble of the arrangements and get someone who doesn't mesh with me. The selection of mental health professionals in Utah County are not is not as deep as what's available in the great Northwest.

pat pat, Jilli. Shrink ~ma.

Connie, if you really feel like you need one, then you should give it a try, but please don't let it totally discourage you if you don't click with the first one. Or the second. I know I should be more encouraging, but, I've only ever had one really good shrink, and it's not the one I'm seeing currently. I'm only still with this guy because I don't have the spoons to find another. Does your employer have an EAP program? That might help.

Not my psychiatrist, but my general PCP was great when I came in with all my perimenopausal woes. She was a bit older than me at the time, so she completely got what I was going through and helped reinforce to me that I did not have teh craxies. I didn't end up seeing a psychiatrist until the anti-depressant she put me on unearthed some other long standing problems which she was not qualified to handle. A good shrink is a real boon, too. As is a good therapist! I really couldn't have made it through the past two years out without having mine work in tandem.

Jilli, all the hairpats. I hope you get what you need from the appointment.

I'm sure I'm late on this but hair pats Jilli. I hope the pdoc can help you find a medication to feel better.

So I went to work again. Achievement staying when I wanted to leave unlocked.

Unfortunately I stayed up late so I got up late and I didn't take my meds until right before I went to work so I was in a fog most of the time. I was supposed to downstock (figure out what needs to be put on the shelves and put it out) . It was hard with the brain fog, then we were short handed and so I had to help 2 customers one I didn't ring up but I had an anxiety attack after dealing with her. So I took my PRN klonopin, which didn't help with the fuzziness and I ended up at the back door acting semi like security for the last hour (which is where I ended up helping someone else).

My official supervisor wanted to talk to me but there was no time. I have to make sure I go to bed early enough on Tuesday I can take my meds, even if i just take them and go back to bed and nap for a bit.

I see my therapist tomorrow and I think I see my psychiatric nurse practitioner on Wednesday I'm goign to talk to her. About the mental fuzziness and also that since increase the Lamitcal I've felt depressed and not better like when I first started taking it.

Gentle hairpats for Jilli. I hope it goes well.

And askye, I hope things start working out better for you.

Hairpats, Jilli.

I hope your meds get adjusted better for you, askye.

I wish it were easier for me to do new things. I don't really hate my old things--I'm proud of some of them. But they are kind of goody-two-wheels things(including flossing) You know? Sometimes I feel like I'm in a habitrail with wifi. Not that I need to rob a liquor store to feel alive, exactly...

I hope your meds get adjusted for you, askye.

The psych appointment was good. Sure, I cried, but that's my default reaction to stress. There are medication changes in my future, whee.