I actually have a story regarding this, so my therapist is in medical school on his last year and will hopefully be a resident pdoc next year. He has Bipolar 1 with some other fun flavors mixed in. He has tried pretty much all the medication and knows the terrible side effects and how much fun hospitalizations and withdraws are. Minus that one snafu with him wondering if I was really Bipolar 2 or not he has been a wonderful therapist and I have no doubt in my mind that he will eventually be a great Pdoc since he knows what it feels like. I usually bounce med ideas of him and take them to my prescribing doctor. I will be sad when he leaves for a bigger city come May-June. Hopefully he'll be willing to do Skype therapy.

If I am being totally honest I wish the PsychNP that prescribed Latuda could experience the muscle spasms I had on the medication. I also wish the Zyprexa prescriber could experience gaining 20 pound in two weeks and the gift of all her clothes not fitting and someone telling her the appetite will change.