Thanks for your responses!

I'm consulting a psychologist for therapy. I wasn't interested in a medicalized approach and that's why I didn't look for an MD.

OK, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that thinks something might be fishy with the jump to medicate. While I do understand busy-ness (boy, do I), and it's possible that things will even out with our schedules, there was another issue for me.

I'm not in a crisis, I've been managing my symptoms for decades with no sort of help whatsoever, and I've been very functional over the past five years, exceedingly so by most standards.

But I know my symptoms are consistent with a bipolar diagnisis. Even though I've never had a psychotic episode, I know this is a sserious illness. And I also know that denial is not just a river in Egypt, specially for folks with this dx.

It seems to me that in most fields of medicine we always try the least invasive therapy first. Is there nothing out there save meds?