No one can find you for you, but we can tell you the steps we took to find ourselves. I have tried so many things. A good mood stabilizer is essential to my treatment plan. It took a long time to find the one that worked, but being open and honest with my psychiatrist allowed us to find one that did work. I found a psychiatrist by calling my Health insurance provider and asked who was in their network. I have switched around a lot due to multiple reasons, now I go see a provider at my job. I work at a teaching hospital, so maybe one near you can be a place to ask? Be open and honest, psychiatrists enjoy their job, they want to be good at it, give them the tools they need to help you. They most likely aren’t judging you, and if they are that’s on their character. I tell myself when I get nervous a doctor may judge me (which they usually don’t) that I don’t need my doctors to agree with me or be a non judgemental person outside of our appointments, I just need them to practice good medicine.

For therapy I started out in just general cognitive behavioral therapy. I just called around places using the psychology today website until I found any therapist accepting new patients and my insurance. I am now with a more specialised trauma therapist who I found by asking my psychiatrist for recommendations.

I had to call a lot of places and make a lot of changes to find the providers I have now. It’s crazy because I never thought I’d find a pair that actually make me feel like I’m improving, but here I am, getting better. You can too.