This is a great poem, thank for you it!

I do think pdocs can overmedicate sometimes. As if every blip of mood change on the radar screen merits a change in medication (dose or changing around meds). I understand what you mean about pdocs medicating ups so you come down, downs so you come up. I think pdocs can be as inept as us at times (I say this because it's very very difficult) in figuring out what a patient's baseline is, so that you're not always medicating every change in mood. I've experienced this and I think this is where -if you're in a state to be able to- we as patients can advocate for ourselves and sometimes just say 'no' and see if our current med regime might end up getting us out of our mood, also with time, and maybe therapy and using other skills.

I understand the desire to stop something NOW and changing meds to do that, but sometimes (and I mean just sometimes) it can be waited out without these jarring changes (to our brains) with meds.

Sometimes I think the ups and downs can be treated without changing meds, though only sometimes...