First, Santa Rosa clinic doesn't always seat you with doctor you made an appointment with. I never saw dr Syed. The chick i did see was an idiot. I've been on SSRI's for the last 7 years. Every family practice I've ever been too has prescribed me lexapro no problem no fuss. It's what works! This chick must have taken me for a fool and said I needed to go to a psychiatrist and that family practice drs don't prescribe these kind of meds. She then proceeded to tell me to come back for blood work. WHAT FOR??? I'm 27 in perfect health except for my depression (which happens to run in the family for the past 5 generations!!!!) If your not "doctor enough" to prescribe freakn SSRI's, you're not doctor enough to do blood tests. Go back to meds school or whatever online place you got your "degree". If I wouldn't have moved my doc back in Utah would have prescribed it to me over the freakn phone. Please for your own sake find a different place to see a real doctor.