| Comment | > Doctor's are encouraged to get you to exercise, drink less alcohol and go to therapy sessions before they can prescribe any medication
As an aside, and not to contradict anything you've said, I had a friend who went to the GP and they went straight away with medication, first visit.
That might depend on how many of those preventive factors (you mention) that each person is engaged in in the first instance, of course.
I think the reality is that GPs don't particularly understand mental health and its treatments very well, and it's a very long time to see a clinical psychologist. |
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