Can a doctor other than a psychiatrist give you a prescription for anti-anxiety medications?

Anyone with an M.D. tacked onto the end of their name can give you antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications. It can be a psychiatrist, a general practitioner, a pediatrician, a gynecologist, literally any doctor can prescribe them. Usually only a general doctor or a psychiatrist will be willing to write the prescription, though (your gynecologist would probably give you a strange look if you asked them for anti-anxiety meds, since it's completely out of their specialty).

I will tell you straight up though, medication alone is not a good treatment for anxiety. You said that you dropped out of therapy in the past... why? You should consider seeing another therapist for help with your anxiety problems. You can engage in therapy in conjunction with taking medication, or you can just do therapy without meds, but just taking medication for your anxiety is not going to fix the problem. It will probably alleviate your symptoms, sure, but as soon as you stop taking the medicine your anxiety is going to come right back. This is because anxiety is extremely behavioral in nature, much more so than most other mental disorders, so by only addressing the biological aspect (the brain chemistry) you are completely ignoring a huge part of the problem. Without addressing that root cause, you're only masking the symptoms, and you'll never get better.

Trust me, seeing a therapist when you are 20 is going to be completely different than seeing one when you were 15. You are a different person now with a much more mature, rational brain and you will respond to therapy a lot better now as an adult than you did as an adolescent. This is the voice of experience telling you this... I saw many therapists as a teen and hated all of them. Finally in my freshman year of college I decided to start seeing a therapist at the free mental health clinic at my university because I knew I needed it, and it was a totally different experience.

So yes, your general doctor can prescribe you anti-anxiety medications and probably will, but I would not suggest just taking medication to try and fix your anxiety problem. Therapy is an important part in actually getting past your anxiety and living a normal life, medication alone can't do that.

Good luck!

Yes your primary care doctor can prescribe these types of medication for you.

Think again about seeing a therapist or psychiatrist though, as they are far more knowledgeable about these disorders.

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