No I don't mean doing drugs or drinking. I have noticed some patterns and has made me reevaluate my healthcare choices. My dentist is outside the US and I feel more at ease with him, even though he is blunt and speaks English. I recently had been on a path with Nootropics that brought me to a point where I realized my hormones were out of whack. At first my gut told me I need to go the anabolic route. I put it off as childish BS. But then I looked into neurosteroids and took the pill form for certain hormone boosters and felt a hell of a lot better. Long story short and after talking with a specialist outside the US I found a medicine that helps but was cost prohibitive in the US but not outside. After taking it a few months, my anxiety and depression have melted away. In fairness to the doctor in the US he did help me find anti anxiety medicine that I could use episodically, but now even if something hits me it affects me 90% less than it did before.

This leads me to my quandary. The specialist is for one thing in particular and I could not find a GP in that region (I might check in another city and maybe a country over), but this whole thing has shattered my trust in doctors for anything outside maybe a sprained ankle. I am not even blaming them, but even when I get sick I usually know what I need (Mucinex or amoxicillin) and usually does the trick. I do want to have a medical professional to bounce stuff off of, but it is disheartening when research and a little sleuthing can eliminate 15 years of depression in a few weeks. I am not saying this is the case with everyone or not even bashing medicine, and it did take me a few years to fix, but now I feel a lot better. How has anyone else solved this distrust in a constructive way?