This is a tough one. Do you do better on the treatments you're receiving, or were you better off without them?

Diagnosis is really mostly for billing and to guide treatment. Treatment these days, for most of us, is pills, sometimes shock, rarely operations. If the label applied to you has led to treatment that makes your life better, my personal advice would be to look at the label as the best the "professionals" can come up with.

I'm labeled with a severe form of Bipolar I with a psychotic component. I don't think "oh, I"m Bipolar" or all that, although some people do. My approach is to say that I do better on these prescribed drugs than I did on no drugs or different drugs, which is true. So, I'm --me--, but the people who put down official diagnoses and such have decided that "Bipolar I" describes the cluster of problems I had before prescription treatments were provided.

But, yeah...a lot of people are labeled with Bipolar I or II and medicated when the label is inaccurate and then the drugs are a waste of time and money, because they don't help and all drugs have adverse effects and cost something to acquire.

If you find that the drugs are useless and/or cause too many adverse effects to justify continuing treatment, then maybe just try to make a graceful exit from psychiatry and go on about your life. ((personal opinion))

Hope things get better for you.