Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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Anyone have a success story, or the opposite, for if you went off your meds? I want to know if it's possible to go off the meds and be just fine. I know it's possible, but I've heard the opposite so many times. I want to go off of mine. I halfed my dose without doc permission awhile ago and I'm going to plan on cutting the half in half. Then I want to get off of it completely. Has anyone done this and not relapsed?
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I wish you luck, but I don't see any good coming of it. Everytime I have tried to quit mine, I end up in the hospital wishing I could die, and with hundreds of cuts. Be careful. Use logic and reason, and do what's best for you, and definitely talk to your doc. You have a doc for a reason, so don't do this without him or her knowing.
I will spare you the grizzly details, but let's just say that I only made it a couple of weeks each time before a relapse occurred & I next thing I knew I was back in the hospital. I would really suggest some careful consideration before attempting this, particularly if your diagnosis is one of BP I or Rapid Cycling. Also, why haven't you gotten you doc's permission? If you are truly ready, then it shouldn't be a problem. I wish you the best.
Didn't do fine but stayed off meds from then till 2005, which is 13 years. No hospitalizations either.
But was life fine? No it was not. It was not hell either. It was nothing. Just nothing, trying to keep myself straight without meds, trying to keep others from knowing my diagnosis.
Some seriously wacky manic stuff cost me a job - a good job in a field that I dearly love.
Depression followed which cost me another job in the field that I dearly love.
Picking up the pieces, may take years.
Would I go off meds again?
Nope, not on your life. But then my meds don't give me any side effects (Tegretol, love it).