To expand on my comment #31, please understand that your friend's statements CANNOT be relied on if she is manic and/or delusional...starting with “her doctor is not a psychiatrist”! I find if hard to believe that a GP would prescribe these meds. I also don't even believe that she would be going “to his office” to pick up what appear to be several “controlled drugs”.
My wife has been taking piles of psych meds from a dozen doctors in five states and NEVER has she been told to pick up drug prescriptions from the MD’s office. Doctors are always being watched as they are frequent pill abusers, so they must carefully comply with controls such as having prescriptions get filled by a third party pharmacy.
If you could suggest that she show you her pill containers so you can see which MD actually prescribed the pills without setting her off in some way, it would help prevent you from jumping to wrong conclusions based just on what she is saying. Again, I strongly recommend that you refrain from concluding that her GP has done anything wrong based only on her statements.
“and then comes to his office to pick up her prescriptions which are held for her at the desk.”
She is probably doing what my mother in law does which is pick up the “paper” script and take it to the drug store for her arthritis pain medicine, which can’t be phoned in and has to be physically delivered to the pharmacist.
Actually, I did see her prescriptions today, saw them with my own eyes when she opened a sealed envelope and took them out to show me and that’s where I got the list of meds. She wrote them down for me herself and wrote her doctor’s phone number down when I told her I wanted to call him because I was very angry at him for making her crazy. She actually wants me to help her. I personally saw the prescriptions and her doctor’s name on them. She commented how he always spells her name wrong.
You know something strange? As nuts as she appears to be, she RARELY forgets to take her meds. We discussed this phenomenon today, as much as anyone can discuss anything with her, and she agreed it was interesting. She says if she does forget, which is extremely rare, she can tell within a day.
Oh, and I saw several of her prescriptions in the bottles; she carries them around with her in her purse.
It sounds like your wife has good doctors. My friend is not the only person I’ve known whose doctor never (or rarely) sees them and just talks to them over the phone and precribes psych meds.