Originally Posted by
sparky10
It’s perfectly reasonable to ask to speak with your doctor, you are just being fobbed off and deserve to be seen by your gp.
Any health professionals worth their salt would allow you to titrate up on medication with your known sensitivity.
it’s counterproductive of them to insist that you start at the therapeutic dose when you have more chance of staying on
the medication and benefiting doing it your way.
you need to advocate for yourself and stick to your guns!
There is a good chance it would help you as you share genetics and I’ve heard many accounts where family members have been helped
with the same medication. Not always but hopefully this is the case.
Like someone else said you have to be severely ill to be sectioned and hospitalised these days. It’s a very last resort and you don’t need to be worried about that! When they said the mental health team it will most likely be access n crisis or secondary care who help people in the community and in no way look to place someone in hospital.
hope you get the help you deserve!