[kayodelycaon]

> In my experience, since they seem to think I have to be on it til the end of time.

Easily explained by survivorship bias. They only see the people who need to be on it for the rest of their lives.

There are people who will need to be on medication their entire lives. I'm probably one of them. My psychosis and primary insomnia hasn't been treatable with anything else.

[reify_null]

Thanks for that perspective. That could explain it indeed. The psychiatrists I saw were the ones working the ward, not outpatients. So they really do see the worst of it. That being said, I really do admire the work they do, the people there are typically not easy to work with, at least not while they are on the ward.

I am lucky in that I'm on a low dose of not too strong medication (valproate acid, 600mg slow release daily). If I go off (I've weaned off it myself before) nothing really extreme seems to happen. Hope you are doing well with your medication.