I'm sorry CG. Student services are unfortunately not equipped to deal with real problems sometimes. Can you still do the DBT or did they deny that? You can Ty to do DBT on your own through the DBT website and through the DBT workbook for bipolar. I found DBT to be confusing on my own though. I didn't really get it till I went to the group. But it's worth a shot.

I guess try to move forward wih your old T if you can. You don't have to go to your pdoc unless the T requires it.

As for your question about whether you should take meds, unfortunately only you can answer that. You have to decide if they're right for you, although I agree with the others - you've never given meds a fair trial from what I've seen. If you want to stay away from the APs, maybe your pdoc will be amenable to that? Seems like they treat abilify as the new wonder drug but it didn't do anything for me except keep me down in a depression. Now I'm finally on a mood stabilizer and doing much better. I'm also on an AP but I needed that to bring me out of psychosis and now I don't want to take a chance of going off of it. I'll take the brain shrinkage!