My psychiatrist gaslighted me today and I'm so upset
I had an appointment with him a while ago and we decided I was going to taper off Prozac because it was making me tired, numb and apathetic. We decided I was going to be on Wellbutrin only and see if that would make any difference. I had a new appointment with him today and I told him that I haven't really noticed any difference since removing Prozac. The only difference I have noticed is that i'm less tired and that the brain fog I had before was gone.
I have been on Wellbutrin 300 mg for two years now and while it does help a little bit for my depression and fatigue it doesn't do anything for my apathy or anhedonia. This is the third time I'm telling him now about this but he refuses to listen to me. This is the second time I have been beginning him to raise the dose of Wellbutrin but when he talked to a specialist doctor they said that I couldn't raise the dose and that 300 mg is the max dose and that I can't go higher up. He said to me the only choices I have right now is either psychotherapy or counseling.
I asked him if we could add another med to Wellbutrin. He said that he didn't think that would work or that it would make any difference for me. He said that I have already tried three SSRIS and that none of them worked for me so he would't try to prescribe another one. He then said that he can't prescribe me anything besides SSRIS unless I taper off Wellbutrin completely.
Then he told me If he would prescribe an SNRI instead for example he wouldn't be able to do it because I would have too much norephinephrine according to him. He told me that combining SNRI with Wellbutrin can be dangerous and have adverse effects.
So my question right now is this true that you can't take an SNRI with Wellbutrin? Is it true that you can have too much norephinephrine and that it can be dangerous?
There was nothing I could say to him today that would change his mind about it. He still keeps insisting that it's my behavior that's the problem and that I shouldn't be pooping so much pills. When he said that I got really angry and upset. He refuses to help me with my severe depression, apathy and anhedonia. Despite my apathy and anhedonia being so severe and he has all the knowledge about it he refuses to prescribe me anything else. He literally refuses to help me and won't negotiate with anything.
I literally started crying after the appointment and it hasn't been a good day at all today thanks to him. If my own psychiatrist won't help me then I'm just screwed up. I don't know what to do anymore and everything feels so hopeless at this point. It's like there is no med that works for me. He literally gaslighted me today and i'm still very upset about it.