Bipolar Disorder Support Group

No

why come off med?/ Do diabetics come off meds or heart patients?

It is like having an allergy take the meds and LIVE

your brain needs the meds to find that stability & stay there. DO NOT GO OFF YOUR MEDS.

When you are stable,it means the meds are working..why go off them,only to land on your backside again?

when stable no but when feeling like crud from side effects then oh yes

But maybe this time it'll be different. Maybe my brain chemistry has changed or maybe I'll be able to deal with it without the meds. I keep telling myself that... I know it never works out that way but I'm always hopeful.

TAKE THE MEDS AND SOMETHING

Hope is a good thing..but then there is reality.

Pretty much consider your life to be medicated for the rest of your life..it may make accepting it easier.

I do the same thing. I was doing really well and told my Pdoc that I wanted to cut back on my meds and see if I would still do as well.
It didn't work out, though. I had a moderate setback, from which I am still recovering.

Tony, think about this: what is it that matters? being stable or being on meds? there is no stability wihtout meds - got that? you are BP - you are not getting over that - there is NO cure coming - there has never been a cure - there has never been a person who truly had BP that "recovered" from it - YOU ARE BP - THERFORE, IF YOU WANT TO BE STABLE, TAKE THE MEDS - its the only way. got it?