Some very good points... Definitely something to think about. You really know your stuff. Wow. I can tell I'm going to get a lot out of this. A couple of points to fill in the blanks:

I've suffered from severe depression interspersed with periods of high energy and/or irritability for as long as I can remember (depression stems back to when I was as young as 5 or 6), the only reason why I went on meds after my daughter was born was because it had escalated to the point where I was afraid of losing control with my kids - it was fine when it was just losing control, but bringing the kids into the mix really scared the crap out of me.

Oh, I was only on the Welbutrin for a month because I broke out in hives. LOL