Is Drug Treatment Enough?

for your insights...keep them coming!

sincerely~shmity72

What should I be looking for?

Is this something done better in group therapy or individual?

Where do I find it?

Thanks.

This does sound like the best possible scenario provided that the therapist understands the bi-polar disorders.

Our son is going to college.  He has mentioned that he has to find a doctor/psychiatrist in the town of the college.   I think this is a huge step forward for him because here at home, he will only see a doctor for meds, not therapy.

It was good to see the importance of therapy in print.

It is hard to let go, however, the truth of the matter is, he is no longer my little guy.  He is soon to be a man.  He will have to advocate for himself out in this big world.  I hope that we have given him a firm foundation with which to do so.

I have been so fortunate to have found, 15 years ago, a psychiatrist who was seeing patients in a clinical setting.  She went on to become the director of medical student education at a large teaching hopital near by while still retaining her practice.  In addition to her extraordinary ability to know her patients

and what specific combinations of medications would look to be promising, she has a unique ability to help me understand that medication changes,

withdrawing meds and adding meds is a process.  It takes time and it must be done under supervision with great care.

If it were not for her stabilizing my mood,

and anxiety, I would not have been able to help my bp1 senior who is graduating next month. 

As for myself, I have always so wanted to

believe that I didn't need these medications.  I always knew I was different than a lot of other friends my age but I always used my keen intellect

and rationalization to keep me away from medications.  Wow, did I waste a lot of time.  However, having a mood disorder, acknowledging it and finding out what meds work and vice-versa has been for me a gift of a life-time.