Sorry for the crappy subject line.

I saw this psychiarist recently, the one I had to see cuz of the social insurance institute was giving me grief about my incapacity for work. They wanted a second opinion from their own doctor. Or something, I'm rambling. Anywho, this doctor was pretty sure I'm bipolar or that.. other.. thing.. eh . My doctor apparently hasn't diagnosed me as anything else but depressed. As far as I know.

I'm forgetting what I was going to ask.. Oh yes, since I'm not intitled to any s.i.i. benefits if I refuse to get medication, I was gonna ask about that. How does medication for bipo work? What kind of drugs and how much do you have to take? What kind of side effects? How LONG do you have to take them? What if you don't? Is there someone, who used to feel like they didn't want anything out of life, didn't care if you ended up living on the street... and now with medication would actually want something out of life?