Did anyone else get prescribed medication after their first therapy visit?

Question

When I was in 4th grade I was diagnosed w/ depression and anxiety. The year before, ADHD. The very first therapy visit they gave me a bottle of pills saying it would help “straighten out the kinks”. 2 years of continuous therapy and meds later, I was told when I was on the meds I acted like a robot. I wasn’t myself. After five years of fighting the system, I was off medication but still taking therapy. Now, after almost ten years, I am still handling my mental issues. I’ve been out of therapy for two years, off meds for 5. Apparently my friends experienced the same thing. Why do they immediately give you a bottle of pills after diagnosis?

Answer

It’s because pharmaceutical companies have doctors in their pockets, lazy doctoring, doctors looking for profit, etc. I had my first appointment with a doctor who spent maybe 5 mins talking to me and wrote me a prescription for Xanax at age 18. I didn’t get it filled and never went to that doctor again. I saw a new doctor who wrote me a nutrition and exercise plan, recommended certain calming strategies and alternative therapies, and an herbal supplement. The second doctor didn’t have a requirement to follow up every 4 weeks like the first doctor would have if I had chosen Xanax, so the 2nd had no ulterior motive to continue making money off of me. 
I see it all the time in my family and my field of work too. I have a lot of autism in my family and it’s shocking how young doctors try to prescribe medicine without trying anything else first. My nephew was THREE the first time they prescribed him ADHD meds and sleeping pills.

Answer

I have a similar story I was diagnosed with ADHD in kindergarten and they gave me pills. I fell sleep within a hour of taking them and was asleep the whole day. I kept getting prescribed different medications until 5th and kept those for 2 years and stopped the medications. Six months later I was diagnosed with depression and they didn’t give me medications. Turns out I didn’t have depression. I had extreme stress to the point that if I did something wrong then I would stress so much that I got depression symptoms.

Did anyone else get prescribed medication after their first therapy visit?

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