From bad psychiatrist to worse?... [View all]

So now that I've had that breakdown and quit school again for the umpteenth time I can't see the psychiatrist I was seeing at school, since he was tied to that institution. Which I suppose is a blessing in disguise since as others here said I need to see someone else and preferably more often than once every 2 or 3 weeks. AT the last meeting with the psychiatrist I WAS seeing he recommended I go back to my family DR and see if I can get in touch with someone in my local geographic area, he also recommended a few more med changes that I have not yet implemented because he thought I should go back to some old meds I took a long time back that stopped working for me. Not sure if I will change back to the old meds or not yet.

Anyway I saw my family DR and told him that I need to see a new psychiatrist but not one of the 2 that I've already seen. He said have you tried psychotherapy, to which I said no but would be willing to try. So he recommends this guy:

http://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/3555450/Dr-James-Fabian-West+Vancouver-BC.html

So great. Looks like I've gone from one bad psychiatrist to another or possibly worse one. I haven't gotten the call from this guy yet but if and when I do I'm not sure I'll take the appointment. I'm rather at a loss as to what to do now. I guess I could look for someone who IS well rated and ASK to be referred to them, can you do that? That still leaves me with finding a therapist, I don't know any in this area and therapy you usually have to pay for out of pocket here, unlike psychiatrists. I don't even know where to start there, well that's not quite true I have a few ideas I guess but I've lost most of my motivation.

I've been spending the days since the breakdown just staying at home here sleeping and eating. I watch TV, or movies at night, read wikipedia, and try to forget that the world exists. It's not good that my parents enable me by allowing me to live at home like this but they worry about what would happen if they kicked me out or did something similar. I'm sort of on the edge of being an alcoholic, I do turn to it when I get super upset. So they worry about that too. I'm really just leeching off them, but then I don't know what else to do at this point