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Originally Posted by wildflowerchild25
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!
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Can't go to DBT group because they require you to be in individual therapy there.
It's a state-run practice, so they require you to go to the pdoc within the practice. Which is stupid. I want someone who will actually have a good reason for upping my doses of stuff rather than just doing it because the sky is blue. That's a big problem I'm having with my meds. I seriously don't know if the meds/dosages are necessary or why I'm even on that specific one because he never takes the time to discuss it with me.
And to clear things up, I was on my first set of meds dutifully for MONTHS before I had a pdoc change it even though they weren't working, and I've been on everything at one point or another long enough to see effects (except for Seroquel because of the ridiculous rapid weight gain and perhaps Lexapro because I'm afraid to be on only an AD since I was quitting my AP). I also know that I was probably the most stable I've ever been while on the combo of Lexapro and Abilify, but I still don't know if I was just between episodes - regardless, brain atrophy is a deal-breaker side effect for me and since you can't see it happening like a rash, etc, I wasn't about to blindly continue it.