Proudmama, many 
It is scary at first, but your GP, if a good one, will support you and help you work through your fears and help you try stuff. I had a wonderful nurse practitioner who let me try everything to treat my issues as hormones, even calling her brother who was a pharmacist to try to track down prometrium for me. I had to accept my issue was not hormonal, but she gave me the space to work through that. Then she was able to have my ear fully to what she thought would be a good idea to try. We started and at a certain point she was honest and said we were moving outside her comfort zone for treatment and she referred me to a good care provider who could do more tinkering. I have serious mental illness though, I just wasn't aware how sick I was. I wasn't woh, I was sah on the couch.
Now, I am really doing very well! I am on meds, but because of the work I did to get the cocktail right, I have the energy and drive to eat and feed my kids the diet I want us to have. I can keep my house clean. I feel successful. I wish I had sought meds sooner. Now that I am stable and feeling well, I can work back in the other direction, healing my gut which is likely what is causing a lot of my problems and perhaps in a few years I will be able to wean off my meds.
Many people with far less illness find that six months of an antidepressant or anti-anxiety med will get them over the hump to a point where they can manage without meds.
It is scary at first, but your GP, if a good one, will support you and help you work through your fears and help you try stuff. I had a wonderful nurse practitioner who let me try everything to treat my issues as hormones, even calling her brother who was a pharmacist to try to track down prometrium for me. I had to accept my issue was not hormonal, but she gave me the space to work through that. Then she was able to have my ear fully to what she thought would be a good idea to try. We started and at a certain point she was honest and said we were moving outside her comfort zone for treatment and she referred me to a good care provider who could do more tinkering. I have serious mental illness though, I just wasn't aware how sick I was. I wasn't woh, I was sah on the couch.
Now, I am really doing very well! I am on meds, but because of the work I did to get the cocktail right, I have the energy and drive to eat and feed my kids the diet I want us to have. I can keep my house clean. I feel successful. I wish I had sought meds sooner. Now that I am stable and feeling well, I can work back in the other direction, healing my gut which is likely what is causing a lot of my problems and perhaps in a few years I will be able to wean off my meds.
Many people with far less illness find that six months of an antidepressant or anti-anxiety med will get them over the hump to a point where they can manage without meds.
