You can find those meds. I put in 8 years as treatment resistant before I hit stable when I started the MAOI and was on a normal dose of Seroquel. I did great until I caught whooping cough and that destabilized me terribly and the treatments to fix it just made things worse and I never got back to where I once was after the whooping cough andc then complications after minor surgery. But I was stable on 3 psych meds for over a year and truly think I would have been fine longer if I hadn't gotten whooping cough that turned to asthma which meant meds that destabilized me. It was worth that 8 years to get that time and it leaves me with hope that I'll someday get there again, even if I am on 7 meds now. But if I didn't know why I was taking each of them, why I was on each dose, and why I couldn't be on less I would not be taking this many. I'm on this many because my dr has explained why and what the plan is for getting me off of some of them. I doubt that anything would be added at this time unless there were a huge emergency that landed me IP and then they'd take away something. I guess I'm trying to say I'm on so many because my bipolar is severe and I am treatment resistant but that doesn't mean I'm staying on 7; if I weren't on a super high dose of Seroquel I'd be coming off meds starting next month I imagine but first we have to lower the Seroquel.

I think a dr saying "this is the way it is because I know it is the right thing" is a dr saying "take my word for it and do what I say" and that's not a good thing to ever hear from a dr.