Hello Imalooney: The Skeezyks has also been on-&-off med's over the years. I'm no longer on any med's... psych or otherwise. I do still have a pdoc. I've decided to just see him once a year now, just to keep my foot in the door, so to speak. When I do see him, it is also for a grand 10 minutes or so...

My experience has been that the pdoc I see will pretty-much give me whatever I want... & even some stuff I don't... if I'm willing! If I was agreeable, I could be on a whole medicine cabinet full of stuff! Any time I mention any little ache or pain, whether psychological or physical, he's ready with a med suggestion. So when you write that you keep getting higher doses with every visit to your pdoc, I'm not in the least surprised. That's the way it would be for me if I allowed it to happen. I don't.

As you wrote, there are no concrete answers to your questions. After a while, I think, the whole med-taking business just becomes so confusing one doesn't know what's working & what's not... what's helping & what's causing more trouble than it's worth. And, from my perspective, your pdoc doesn't know either. So, all you can do is to decide for yourself what you want to try as far as what you feel you need to be on versus what you think you may be able to get off of. Personally, I never felt any of it did enough good to justify the cost. I don't have anything against being on psych med's. And I would definitely take them again if I felt I needed to. But I'm getting along the way I am & I am leery of the way my pdoc is so willing to just keep piling on the med's. (By the way... despite that... I actually quite like the pdoc I see...)