How is decreasing medication going to help - this happened to a friend of mine and what the psychiatrist was doing was trying to rule out medication as being the cause for the depression. He told her that the art of medicine is not a one time deal. It takes time to find the right medication and the right dosage and then sometimes what happens is the person builds up a tollorance to the medication so that it ends up being that the medication is doing more harm then good by sometimes causing the symptoms that it is supposed to be helping. By lowering her medication they were able to rule in the fact that it was the medication that was causing the problem so she had to be taken offf that medication and put on something newer on the medication shelves.