I agree about the talk therapy to understand all the thoughts in your head. So glad to hear that you are doing so well, congrats! The journal is a good idea too. it helped me a lot to put away all those thoughts and ideas away in a place where I can reflect on it years later and say to myself, "Look how far I've come!"

Be careful about going off the meds though. I am the lowest dosage possible. Down to 2mg of Haldol. I was down to 1mg at one point. I could have come off completely anytime because I have been doing so well these past couple of years. As a matter of fact I stayed stable from 2004-2007 completely off meds. Three years! Then the symptoms came back like a wave of bad things. It took my good job, apartment and everything I worked so hard for. I relapsed bad and it came out of nowhere. That taught me a very valuable lesson with this illness called bi-polar. It is unpredictable and can come back at anytime. We have to accept the fact that we have this illness and we have it for life and when we feel good it doesn't mean its gone.

Just be cautious, is all I'm saying. All people are different, but according to my doctor we have this illness for life and I used to think the doctors were just saying that to push their pills on people until I lived it and relapsed.

Take care and good luck!