If you are fortunate enough to only need one or two meds that's wonderful. Sometimes it takes several meds to get the mood stabilized. Sometimes there are meds for multiple disorders (ie I'm on meds for anxiety and PTSD along with bipolar). And sometimes meds just don't work well and it takes time to find what does work and then to adjust things so that the minimal meds are taken.

For example I've been on clozapine 18 months. We're still trying to find a dose that keeps me stable but isn't too much. We were close and then tried to go lower it and it got worse. So the dose went way up. Eventually I'll get it lower again and when I'm stable the plan is to get off topimirate which only helps me sleep some and over a 2 year taper clonazepam.

Just because my list seems unusual to some people doesn't mean it isn't right for me and that it has been arrived at with years of work with an excellent psychiatrist who has been incredibly patient as med after med did not work or had dangerous side effects. I tried over 70 meds in countless combinations to get here and I'm proud of it because sticking it out was one of the hardest things I've had to do.

Everyone is different and if you need .25 mg of a med (which doesn't even make sense given that some meds .25 mg is a HUGE dose) so you can function then by all means count that as one of your meds. Maybe someday someone will see that and think that it might benefit them and you'll have helped someone.