If you don't trust your therapist and your shrink then you should probably try and find ones you do that's a huge step.

There's also lots of different medications and it can be tricky to try the right things. I gained almost 20 lbs in one month on Zyprexa and was taken off of it because of the weight gain and anxiety attacks it was giving me. I tried a few other medications that caused side effects. Abilify works great for some people but it made me drowsy and brain fog. I' was on another that gave me painful pins and needles feeling all over my body.

For the past 8 years or so I've been on Seroquel and for awhile I was on Lamictal and it helped but then things changed and now I'm on Lithium and Klonopin and I'm about to start tapering off the Seroquel (just have to get lab results back).

Personally I'm all about medication , I've only had a few experiences that could be considered positive with my untreated bipolar disorder and I never want to go back. I dread the thought of becoming hypomanic as much as I dread becoming depressed. But everyone is different.

Unfortunately sometimes you have to try things or different therapists or therpaises with the knowledge that it may not work and you may have to try something new.

Hopefully one day the science will be precise enough that there will be some kind of test doctors can do and know exactly which types of drugs individuals will respond to. Until then it's a lot of trial and error.