it depends a lot on where you live and the insurance you have so my advice may or may not be of any use, but to speak on my own experiences in the states, you 100% have to be annoying. Keep faxing, call if you can, leave messages and don’t stop until you get an answer. Make an appointment and go in if you can. it’s going to be exhausting and frustrating and you’re going to feel like banging your head against the wall, but we have to advocate for ourselves because no one else will do it for us!! I went to my GP first, she got me started on SSRIs to start, but couldn’t do much as far as actually helping me find a therapist or psychiatrist so from there I had to do the leg work.

Psychology today has a seriously amazing therapist finder, you search by location but you can narrow your choices down specifically by what type of insurance they take, what they specialize in, even gender or age or what issue you need help with. Then? Call everyone. Finding someone that has an opening might be extremely difficult I don’t want to play down how frustrating it might be, but if you have a therapist they have psychiatrist they work with and can give an actual referral for (like I said my GP couldn’t do that for me which suuucked). I was lucky too that my therapists office is really good about insurance and were able to match me with someone in network. Otherwise do you homework! Check with the office, check your insurance, check both ends and make sure you’re covered so you don’t get fucked.

I don’t know if that’s much help, but like I said I can only speak from my own experiences! Best of luck with everything and I hope you can get some answers soon