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Jackie, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Dr. Laura. You're welcome.

My question for you, I have, I'm honestly husband in January. My doctor is relatively new. My primary left the practice and I stayed with the practice last year.

I've only seen this doctor three times and she's pushing me to take an antidepressant and to go to a counselor.

Okay, can you, can you, I ask a few questions?

Yes, please.

Okay, good. This is a general, an internist.

Yes.

Okay, internists specialty is not psychotropic medication, nor mental illness. It is also extremely typical for GPs, general practice, to farm out antidepressants and anti-exhiety pills as a way of just taking the symptoms away.

Certainly doesn't teach you how to cope.

Now, when somebody has one foot over a cliff and the other on a banana peel, yeah, we probably have to do something dramatic.

But being sad that your dad, I'm sorry, husband died in January, February, March, April, we're not even three months later. I would expect you to be sad.

And since sad would be normal, why would I drug it out of you?

Unless you're suicidal.

Are you?

No, no, definitely, no, definitely not.

So you would say you're sad, very sad that he died and your life is now turned inside out. Is that reasonable assumption?

Absolutely. And that's what I try to explain to her. I get up every morning. I brush my teeth. I get dressed. I make my bed. I'm living.

I'm interacting with my family. I go to church. I'm not sitting and crying.

May I ask you why you went to see her the last three times, the new doctor.

Your point in seeing the internist was.

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