Then you dear hammy, have lucked out once again. Bcos how many members here still suffer from episodic depressions or hypomania? Maybe not as pronounced as before, but they do. How many still feel the cycle but your reactions are muted? To say that meds stop cycles, IS inaccurate. Cos that would mean we are CURED. I do not discount the fact that they can and do help some, but to say that they stop cycling, is a gross generalization that certainly does not take everyone into account...