Trippin, see why I love you! You make many good points yet my friend who died knew that if he went off his meds, he'd be psychotic and when we were both hospitalized I saw what he was like as he hallucinated and talked to the ghost of the Indian chief, Crazy Horse and told me how the Navy, of which he'd been in, were monitoring his thoughts.

If you're functioning, drug free, you're one righteous babe and I hope you never have to take another drug EVER! But we're not imagining this illness and it has nothing to do with the DSM or the psychiatric profession or insurance companies. I understand where you're coming from but when I say fk medications, after two or three days of sleep dep, I don't reboot, I get crazier.

I do admire your spirit and you've made your life work, sans meds. At the least, all of us can dip into the well of your spirit and infuse into us a drop or two of your marvelous energy.