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GET A NEW DOCTOR!  STAND UP FOR YOURSELF.   THIS IS RIDULOUS!  uNLESS THE REST OF OUR QUESTION GOT CUT OFF, AND i'M MISUNDERSTANDING (i AM NEW TO THIS) ----  YOU CALL AND DOCTOR OR HAVE SOMEONE ELSE CALL AND/OR GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM IF SUICIDAL...ASAP.    AND ONCE THERE, DON'T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER IF YOU ARE SUICIDAL.  YOU SHOULD BE TREATED, POSSIBLY ADMITTED ASAP.   Also, if you are getting appropriate treatment for depression, you usually would not take that long to determine what works.  It is frustrating to say the least, but you have an illness that needs medical treatment the same way alzeimers or parkinsons does.   Any medical professional who does not recognize this as a brain illness is unqualifies to treat you.  You can't get the immediate help you need sitting and typing on a website.  You are worth standing up with all the energy you can muster, and calling someone to say "I AM NOT GIVING UP."  Please help me find the best help I can get.  There are people out there.  Look in your phone book under crisis intervention type things, mental health organizations in the front of the book....general community listings:   call your state representative.(why? ask is there a consumer advocate office in your state for mental illness, etc.   If they don't know, usually they can find out.   Look online, under your state website, Dept of Health....I know this is alot of calls, but my guess is you will feel lbetter if you even get one good phone call accomplished...I'm just suggesting doing one of these...or all.   I mean, do SOMETHING.   YOu might be able to tell I have been at this for a long time....I have been able to make the calls...but if you can't...try to find someone to pick up the receiver for you and sit with them while they get the ball rolling...it is a pain in the neck, but its what you have to do: self advocate. Nicely.   YOU SHOULD CONTACT PERHAPS A LOCAL AFFILIATE OF NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, who may put you in touch with crisis workers or advocates who can help you make these calls....at the very least, look for a better doctor.   Before spilling my life and complaints to any new doctor, I would look for someone relatively young, as the research is moving fast and furious, so more recent grads, in my view, offer SOME advantage.   If you don't have anyone local to ask who would be a good doctor, see if a NaMI support group, NAMI education group or DBSAlliance support group is near you.  If you could go, you will be able to ask the others: who is considered "good" around here....maybe get decent referral.   Good Luck.