Part of the problem is that you're talking of skipping doses. If you're on meds and want to go off them, you have to do it very slowly. You should do it under a doctor's care. I am going to go off my meds eventually. I have reduced the dosage a lot over time, but only a little bit at a time. A doctor took me off one of the meds I'm on several years ago (and I was only on that one med at that time) to switch me to another, but he did so too quickly. It was like three months. I had a major setback because of the withdrawal symptoms--I didn't have them at first...things started happening over a few weeks, and then one day, after my boyfriend had gone on a business trip, BAM! I got right back on those meds (got a doctor's prescription) and very quickly started getting better. But this time, I'm probably doing it much more slowly than I need to. I've been doing it around a year. Believe me, it's better to do it slowly. I'm doing much better this time.

I wasn't mentally addicted, but I was physically addicted. In other words, I could miss three or four days of meds, and I wouldn't be thinking, I gotta have my meds! I need my drugs! I didn't feel the need for a "fix," in other words, but my body would feel it.