If I'm worried about changing meds (I will be shortly, so I understand) I tell myself it doesn't have to be forever. If I get bad side effects or its not really helping we can change things. That usually helps me feel less nervous. You get to decide what you can tolerate. For example, geodon gives me visual disturbances but it also makes me feel pretty great so I tolerate it. I'm sure most people wouldn't. But it's entirely up to you.

I was on just geodon for a while and it lifted me out of bad depression but it didn't stabilize me. I still cycled a bit. So we added depakote.