Obviously doctors in their right minds will be against helping us wean off the meds. Who would pay them if more and more of their patients succeeded in being drug free? And I know nobody said it in this thread, but I dont subscribe to that school of thought that wanting to ditch meds is a symptom. A symptom of what? Human nature? My aunt has a degenerative immuno deficiency disease, its eating her bones, she wants to ditch her meds. My friend who's a paranoid sz, he wants to ditch his. My co-worker who's diabetic, he wants to not have to inject himself daily... Difference is some of us can actually ditch meds and live a good quality of life, and others not so much.

If bp MUST be medicated, why have they never found a bipolar drug for us? Why must I take seizure meds, now called mood stabilizers, or antipsychotics, or even anti depressents???

If doctors are so sure they know what is wrong, why have they not made any headway in trying to help us? Cancer patients have chemo, AIDS patients have ARV's, SZ, Depression, ADD all have meds manufactured specifically for treatment. Where is bipolar's? No we get off label usage and mixing and matching and most want to drug us into oblivion and call it stability.

I'm sorry, I went off on a tangent and on a rant, but just because I'm in the minority, doesn't mean my path is wrong, or that I'm not really dxd bipolar, and when people imply this it gets my back up the wall.

I mean, I dont say you're all a bunch of kitties for being on meds do I? No, and I don't even think that, yet its ok for people to say my dx is probably wrong if I can manage without meds...