[HopingtoCureAilments]

I have been suffering from severe anxiety accompanied by depression for some time now (a few years at least) and have been hesitant to ask for help. I eventually began seeing a psychiatrist for help because of the damage that my symptoms have done to my life (personal relationships, school, work etc.). I was seeing a psychiatrist for a while who was not an MD who was helping a little bit I guess but in my gut I knew that I could really benefit from the right medication. After a while, without me even saying anything, the therapist that I was seeing recommended me to a psychiatrist who is an MD who would be able to prescribe me any medication he felt to be necessary for my condition.
Trying to make this short and to the point I saw the psychiatrist with the MD and he prescribed me Wellbutrin SR 150mg 2 times a day (12 hrs apart) and Ativan for the severe anxiety I have been feeling. Anyway, the Wellbutrin seems to be helping give me a more positive outlook on things and I generally feel better with the depression but the Ativan did very little if anything for the anxiety. I told him everything I just said, and since the Ativan wasn't doing much if anything for me he switched me to Klonopin. He started me at 1mg twice a day (once in morning, once at night). Then after a while upped me to 2mg 3 times a day (the third dosage being before bedtime) because I told him that I was still feeling a pretty severe amount of anxiety and just a general fear.

My Problem: When he gave me the Klonopin 2mg he said something like "I really expect to see an improvement with your anxiety", or something to that nature. The thing is is that I am still pretty young (25) and I could tell that he just felt uncomfortable giving me anti-anxiety drugs in the first place, which from what I understand is very common among most doctors because of the potential for abuse with these types of drugs. Which I can understand. However, now I feel as if the Klonopin is not helping much more than the Ativan so I would like to try something else. And I know that the next on the list is most likely Xanax. I just don't want my psychiatrist to think that I am just looking to get drugs and I really think that Xanax would be the best thing for me, because I have had it in the past and it seems to work better than anything else.

Any suggestions as to how to approach my psychiatrist about switching medications without him thinking that I am just out looking for good drugs to have fun with or something? Thank you so much in advance for any advice...Sorry the post was so long! Thanks again!

[MofockinTetsuya]

Just try being honest with him is all I know to do. If what he/she has you on now is not working then hes bound to try the next best thing. Then again I don't know much about the condition you have. Maybe someone else might have a little more insight on the situation.