I think that quiltncrazy, the little mousie, made many excellent points, but the one that I'd like to reiterate is the admonishment to be honest with your doctor about how you're doing. I was just like her - a doctor/people pleaser. I wanted them to think that they were doing a good job (I know, sounds stupid, but it's true) so I'd report good symptoms. I was a model patient. EXCEPT, I wasn't doing so good. I ended up lucky. I had a therapist who saw right through the act, and made me promise to be honest with the psych doctor. Dirty trick-she used my own sense of obedience to authority agaist me! :-) :-) Once I came clean, I got a change of meds and have done better since then. But, we've got to be honest, even about stuff that's hard to talk about, like OCD behaviors, so they can help us.