I think another reason mine trusts me is that she knows I really trust her. Because I have failed so many medications (all of them essentially) there was a point in time when we knew that I was going to blow through a lot of options. So I've had to really rely on her to tell me that I could get past a certain side effect or whatever and I've stayed on meds longer than I might have wanted to because I knew that she was being completely up-front about what happened if we ran out of meds (I would need clozaril (on it now so out of med options) and we don't talk about what if Clozaril fails but I think ECT). I've had to trust her a lot about handling weight gain, sedation, etc. when other people might have gotten to just change meds and that has led to a real balance of trust between us.