HOLY SMOKES !!!!!! I DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I'M READING about discontinuing medication. Anyone considering this guaranteed path to self-destruction is either ignorant of this illness or just plain foolish.

Two weeks ago, a woman died in our apartment building because of complications arising from a fatal diabetic seizure. She too decided to go off her insulin because she thought that all she needed was faith in God to be free of her illness.

In the past, I too thought that I could live free of medications, and besides (I foolishly thought) the emergency room and/or my pdoc are only minutes away. But the insane person is the last to know that he/she is insane. So, I didn't recognize the symptoms of mania advancing into manic-psychosis when I cut a trail of disaster all the way from Denver, Colorado up to Mile City, Montana (summer, 2012). Thank God the Montana State Patrol officer immediately recognized my insanity - otherwise I'd still be in jail up there.

DON'T DISCONTINUE YOUR MEDS! I know this illness and how it patiently waits for the opportunity to resurrect itself into an uncontrollable monster wrecking destruction and death in it's wake.