I would agree that talking to your doctor needs to be your first port of call. Recently I read a rather startling statistic, which is that the US has the highest rate of bipolar disorder, at four percent of the population. That's a staggering figure... the rest of the world it's one percent. So there is a possibility that there's been a misdiagnoses. However, you HAVE to talk to your pdoc about this. Going off cold turkey would definitely make you ill.

There's also the fact that just because you feel better on meds doesn't mean you're better. I feel much better on meds, but like others I have break through symptoms. (I've been having some for just over a week now.) In a way I'm glad I get these breaktthroughs, because they remind me that I do need my meds, and remove the temptation to stop taking them. It's too easy to forget pain... have you ever noticed that physical pain is hard to remember? Well, so is emotional pain. In the same way as, when you're depressed, you can never remember being happy, so when you are doing well emotionally it's hard to remember just how awful depression or psychoses actually were.

You need to be very very careful not to make things worse. By all means, talk to your pdoc about gradually reducing the meds. That way, if anything ugly pops up, you'll catch it in time. If you come off all at once then it's more likely that the something ugly will catch you.