Howdy, I’m gonna try and keep this as simple as possible, as I have a tendency to try and over explain
My goal is to get on Zoloft (mostly) for bad anxiety. The NPs at my regular Dr office have recommended/offered SSRIs to me in the past, at those times I didn’t want to try them due to fears about side effects. Now that I’m desperate enough to try Zoloft specifically, based on talking to a few people I know, they won’t prescribe it (I gather it’s a liability thing, but the why is not important), and told me to find a psychiatrist
I’ve found a psychiatrist office, and going over the forms, it asks about drug use, and I’m a daily user of THC in the evenings. My gut tells me to be honest about that in order to get the best help I can get. My brain tells me not to answer that on a form that may become a record, might bite me somehow. But recently, in a local city subreddit, someone made a post asking for a psychiatrist recommendation for ADHD meds, and they were told by users that they can expect to be drug tested. In the context of stimulants, that makes sense, they want to make sure you’re taking them and not selling them.
My question is, is drug testing in general a normal thing for psychiatrists in non-specific contexts like anxiety? If so, if I lie on the form, they would obviously see THC and know I lied, which I would then assume they’d lose trust in me from then on. Am I overthinking it? (I generally do, in every situation, hence the anxiety)
PS the THC doesn’t really help as much with anxiety as I’d hoped, I don’t really get the “chill” experience it seems like other people get, but it’s still something to help shake off a stressful workday