Mrs. Katia Coley, NP

If I could give negative stars I could. Last Friday Katia Coley almost cost me my life.

I have crippling panic attacks and take 0.5 mg to stop them, it's pretty much the only thing that stops them. I'm going through a very stressful period in my life (new job that I've now lost because of Katia's terrible treatment plan), and was also having more severe anxiety caused by a medication switch that Katia suggested. I didn't hold this against her as she prescribed it with good intentions in mind, however, I started to take more xanax because I physically couldn't function from how crippling the anxiety had become and I didn't even realize I had developed a xanax addiction until Katia cut me off cold turkey (which landed me in urgent care because it is factually dangerous to cut off a xanax user.) No other medical professional I spoke to could make sense of her decision, especially since it's very easy to ween off of such a small amount, I've done it plenty of times.

I realized after a few days, I was having withdrawal for the first time in my life and asked her for a refill three times (withdrawal getting worse between each ask, having more panic attacks and intense anxiety). I've been off and on xanax for 10 years and take such a small amount (I've never asked for/needed a higher dose), I don't feel a "high" from it (too low of a dose), I literally only take it to stop the anxiety and panic. It helps me to stop shaking and get my breathing under control when I can't. Katia put me into withdrawal for the first, and hopefully only, time in my life.

Last Friday I was faced with either killing myself to stop the suffering (which I considered cus I'm deeply depressed which Katia knew), or having to sheepishly call someone to pick me up and take me to urgent care/the hospital because withdrawal is just as awful as people say it is and I was having nonstop panic attacks. Katia treated me like I was a drug addict instead of a patient. When I went to urgent care they said I clearly wasn't a drug addict because a thirty day xanax supply usually lasts me 2-3 months, and they understood why I went through the last one quicker than usual because of my body disagreeing with welbutrin. They said katia put me in a dangerous situation and that I need to get a new psychiatrist immediately, one who understands my situation and how panic disorder works.

3 doctors, 4 nurses, and 2 therapists agreed that what Katia did was "cruel" and "reckless," one of them even compared it to withholding medicine/chemo from a cancer patient. If I had never met Katia, I don't think I would have ever known the trauma of withdrawal. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Except for Katia maybe.