I do the same. I have bee taking my anti-depressant, but i have forgotten my mood stabilizer.

I have been told doing this too often is not good for the brain. Let's go eat a snack and take our meds together! :-)

I do the same thing....I feel I am fine without my meds so i just forget about them. Just one day of missing them though everyone around me can tell. So I would take them.

(going to take med right now) sounds like a good plan sammysue

The whole purpose in taking an antidepressant is to elevate your mood. You need to take regularly so you have a high enough dose in your system to feel well. Most people stop their meds because they feel better, but they don't realize it was the meds working and making them feel better. They now have the 24 hour release welbutrin so its only 1 pill a day. I would take mine on the way to work
so That I remembered to take it. Its a good habit too try and take your meds the same time each day

I have a daily container with a space for each day of the week. I fill every Sunday. That way I can look and see if I've taken my meds or not. You can buy them at any drug store.

im not talking about stopping because you feel nice - im talking about forgetting... not on purpose - just forgetting...

I use to forget all the time, but really been trying hard not too, but i don't take them at same time of day and it is key to do that and take every day if prescibed, keep stable, less relapse. GOod luck.

I used to only take meds at night until recently when I take them in the morning as well and always used to forget about them. Not on purpose but because it wasn't a routine yet for me. I also have a weekly pill box with an am and pm side.....LIFESAVER!!!!! I highly recomend it. It sits on my desk right next to my phone charger that i use every night and morning....kinda hard to miss it then.

I sort mine into days of the week too since there are so many of them. However, if I run out, I'm too lazy to find them all at night and just take one or two. Only realized recently that if I skip my synthroid, I'm as messed up as if I skipped my zoloft or seroquel.
In fact, have to sort them today...thx for the reminder!

I forget meds when feeling good, kinda forget I need them, only to discover too much later..

sheesh, second day in a row, this post reminded me to take my meds!

terrible for you....the longer you do this the harder it will become to treat whatever problems you have....especially BP...go on and stay on...we already have one foot in the pyschosis door....

i had a pill box but kept getting depressed just looking at the amount of pills i have to take each and every day. im on more than BP drugs. the damn trys were so full i couldnt even close some of them. i find taking one at a time less stressful. i keep my nite meds on my nitestand and morning meds on kitchen table.

I have a pillbox laying around here somewhere, I set alarms on my cellphone

I always forget to remember my lithium. No wonder my levels are always so low and I'm usually all over the map emotionally.

The pillbox thing never worked for me... my meds are right by my bed, and I'm supposed to take them right before I go to bed so that the side effects don't bother me so much. That's a special kind of stupid. My lithium is by my bed, by my birth control, which I DO remember to take, but I forget to take the stupid lithium. What an idiot:)

You're better on the meds than off, really. You need to keep certain levels up, if only just to keep yourself in the habit of taking them. I was on Wellbutrin at one point... hated it and didn't take it for that specific reason. Plus it made my hair fall out when I took it with the Topomax.
How about we all try to be more responsible? If only for the good of society as a whole (or at the very least, those around us:))