So I've gained thirty pounds since last November and my husband thinks it's my antidepressants and good lord, I hope he's right. Problem is, I just can't bring myself to care enough to stop eating. (Also, I honestly am not eating any different than I was eating before I gained weight. What this means is, I was eating too much and was too heavy, but not gaining like this before.)

Anyway, I began thinking that maybe having my internist hand me samples to find the right med wasn't the best way to do it, and decided to get an appointment with a psychiatrist under the assumption that they deal with these kinds of meds all the time and might have a better handle on what to give me. But then a friend told me that her HMO sent her to a diagnostician first to get diagnosed, and only after that did they send her to a psychiatrist.

I'm now confused, thinking I would like to go to a diagnostician, but don't know how to find one. Does anybody have any advice on this stuff, any of it?

Thanks.