This is my situation...personally I see my PDoc every three months..I usually don't have much to say... But that's just me.

I think the PDocs job is just to give out meds and make an assessment of you. Therapists are the ones to visit more often.

Just my take on things...

thanks Chris. I've been seeing a therapist since I'm 3 years old. Safe to say I'm really sick of them and since I haven't seen one since I'm 14, It's an insane process to find a good one now.

Until I moved, I saw my Pdoc 1 time a month.

The first couple of years , it was basically a med check and to see how I was doing.
Once I became stable , my Pdoc and I started into therapy together.

Therapy helped me to recognize triggers I learned coping skills, I learned a lot about myself that has helped me to stay stable.

Most professionals agree, seeing a Pdoc and some sort of "Talk Therapy" is the best way to maintain stability

I'm looking for a good one. I keep dragging my feet...but today...idk, I really need good therapy.

So have you started looking SiRK?

spacepony I haven't really made the commitment, no :(

I know that when and if you find a good one they are great, it's just the process is exhausting.

I think CBT or DBT are the best therapies. It taught me about life and it taught me about me.

Good for you MissSunshyne!! That is real progress!
You get a gold star!!

I have a new therapist. She wanted me to do weekly but that's too much for me. I'm ready for the next stage of therapy, whatever that means.

Honestly, I get a lot out of groups these days. Therapy can be very isolating sometimes, at least it was for me. I prefer peer support.

No idea what your health coverage or your financial situation. I see my pdoc every six weeks. My therapist one or two weeks.

I only see my pdoc once a month. I find him to be all the therapy I need.

I saw this doc last time who was a womanizer, keep talking about how angelina Jolie got breast rduction and keep saying she was his girlfriend. I wasn't there to hear that, just have my meds kept they way they were even for mantainence. He started to change my meds without telling me why. So on the 18, I see a new doc for my meds. If I have to start therphy fine, but i need to tell the doc hey i just want to see you once a month. Please tell me why meds are being changed an what too. What is wrong with these doctors?

I see my pdoc every three months for a med check. I see my tdoc once a month for therapy. These help me stay stable.

I go to a government run facility so I'm required to see my therapist once a month in order to see the pdoc. But it's nice to know she's there bc right I'm going once a week bc my dad had been ill and just recently died.

I think situations change in life and there may be times you need one and times you don't bc when forced to see one a lot of times I would have nothing to talk about really and it's kinda awkward.

I see my therapist once a week - and I value that time highly. And I see my caseworker every other week and I see my psychiatrist every three weeks. To keep my psychiatrist, I have to see my case worker at least every other week. Like Nester, it's a gov't run facility - or maybe it's state run??? Idk!

I think it varies. I don't see a therapist although I was married to one for nearly 10 years... I take the view that bipolar is an organic disease that if you are medicated you probably have no more need of therapy than anyone else does.