My feeling is "it's my body...I'm in charge." My doctor is there to help me not to criticize. I gained more than 40 lbs in about a month on lithium...I was miserable. My doctor didn't want to change my meds so I fired him and got a new doc. Two years later I'm on Seroquil and have only lost 20 of the original 40 lbs. It makes me very angry because for 10 years I was the same size... all of my clothes are that size.

One thing that I think I should have done was instead of concentrating on "I'm going to loose the weight so I'll just wear jammies until then" was I should have gone out and bought new clothes that made me feel good. And just so you know... you're not alone on the people asking if you're pregnant. I was dating a guy when this weight gain happened and it literally took waiting 9 months to prove to his parents I wasn't pregnant.