Trippin, cause I know we all like a good diabetes comparison, I saw this on the news the other day and found it interesting ...Exercise May be as Effective as Drugs for Heart Disease, Stroke, Diabetes Prevention

I thought others would probably find it interesting as well. Makes me feel like all that exercise is not for notging, and perhaps we will see a new trend in the western medical model.

BIpolski, I really do underatand. I used the feel the same way. But when my dr's set limitations on my abilities and potential I found that to be extremely damaging. I think there is a huge difference between being med free and having bipolarr run wild and being med free and managing your life. I am for the most part symtom free. Most stable I have ever been and peaceful. My family and my GP have both expressed agreement and approval of the treatment I follow and the person I have become. My gp actually called me a role model patient after being off meds and seeing how I have been managing my life.

I would not question peoples dx's ..I would assume they know and their dr's know what they are and have dealt with. I have been dx'd by different psychiatrists who have all agreed to one thing without doubt. And I would not say one thing is ok for bp 2 and not bp 1, after all we are all different and we are all at different places in our lives. I think it gets people backs up because we know how much effort and work it took to get here, it feels invalidating and undermines all the work we have had to do to achieve wellness. We are told what we are told and many of us are told the same thing. So I do understand it, I was told many things and I did believe them until I started to see that they might not be as set in stone as I was told.

And after all we are all here to support each other, no matter what path we walk on.