Sunflower,

I'm not sure about the average person but... I made the choice when I was first diagnosed not to go on meds. This was basically me being a stubborn 18 year old in denial, but also I had a friend in high school who went through the meds nightmare some people have with the cocktails of drugs to curtail the side effects of the other drugs... and it scared me.

I did go to counselling though, and it got better. Bad days are fewer and fewer, though it does come back with a vengeance at times. I'm going it alone at the moment, but go back to counselling at the bad times.

So thinking about it like that, it seems to be a six months on, six months off thing with me. Maybe meds would solve it, but I'm still wary. I've told myself I will when I have more bad days (by that I mean horribly horribly bad hurting myself days) than normal days. But of course everyone's different and I think there are probably many different treatments that will work. Good luck with yours, and remember (just like the cheesy TV ads on at the moment) there is a way through... Hope it gets better.

-Meander