Hello possiblybipolar: I'm sorry you've had this unfortunate experience. I just had a couple of comments here with regard to mental health diagnoses & medications.

My personal experience has been that pretty-much every mental health professional I've seen has had a little different take on what's going on with me. And, in fact, I've never actually been given a formal diagnosis by any of them. So, over the years, I have come to feel that mental health diagnosis, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. Consequently it does not surprise me in the least that your therapist might question the diagnosis you received from doctors at the hospital. If your experience, in the future, ends up being similar to what I have experienced, you are likely to have this kind of disagreement among professionals happen again... possibly multiple times.

With regard to psych med's, I'm no longer on any... for better or worse. But I do still have a pdoc. I only see him once a year now, just to keep my foot in the door, so to speak, in case I should need him in the future. Anyway, he will give me pretty-much any psych med I want if it seems appropriate. Anytime I see him, if I mention something that is going on with me, he's right there with a suggestion for some medication I could take. If I wanted to, I could be on a whole laundry list of medications! I choose not to do that.

Ultimately I believe... you as the patient have to decide for yourself what you are & are not willing to take as far as psych med's go based on your doctor's advise & how you feel you are doing day-to-day. Perhaps others feel differently. But I personally feel very uncomfortable allowing the professionals in my life to decide what I will & won't take as far as medications are concerned. I wish you well...