I would really question who is being close minded you or your pdoc and T ? The very word "closed" , isn't limiting things to one option ( psychotropics ) more closed than being "open" to other options ? Surely I would think so.

Thing is other options are not near as profitable or marketable. Most of them you can learn and impliment yourself from your own home. This kind of earases need for Pdoc, T, and bigpharma... wonder why they won't present other options and when they do.. they present them as a side dish, or condiment but never ever as the main dish.

Not being a full person or feeling like yourself at all is anything but being cured. It's life robbing, it should be disturbing, not swept under the rug with an "at least your mood is stable". Anyones mood would be "stable" when you are drugged into zombietown. It's almost or should be criminal. You are a person and this is your life. It matters a great deal.

You are the one who can decide what is helping and what is not helping and you get to decide what defines the word help. I was told the exact same lines that I suspect you were told as well given by what you write. I think most of us were.

There is nothing really helpful about replacing one bad issue with another, it defies the meaning.

Christina is so spot on with everything she said.

There is no reason to live like this. You deserve better, and I believe it is out there.

My last pdoc wanted me on so many meds, he had me on six at once, and his idea was antipsychotics for life in my case. When I told him I felt like a zombie he sneered and said antipsychotics don't have that affect . I asked him if he would take them...he didn't answer. He is no longer my dr.