Have you done anything to deal with the original issue like therapy or other life changes? So the way I see it most docs think that MI is part biochemical and part environment so you changed the biochemical part to treat it initially which is fast but have you used that time to deal with environment? Are you living a healthy life working in a good environment and surrounding yourself with positive people who have similar lifestyles? Did you change your attribution style or the way you think about things that happen in your life?

So I'm 8 months off meds...the docs have no idea what I have or had other than psychosis but they are considering bipolar right now due to residual mood symptoms. I was on meds for 2.5 years but during the first year of that time I had weekly cbt to learn new ways to process my response to the environment which resulted in lower levels of stress and anxiety for me. I also started making sure I was getting out more on the weekend...made new friends etc. I was doing cognitive remediation including brain games, art and learning a new musical instrument and even started learning a new language at one point. I realize some people need meds for life but if you are one of the ones who can get off it doesn't just happen you have to work your rear end off to change the way you interact with the world or you'll just end up back where you started. I've tried everything I read about to get better on the chance that something might work out and it did...I'm not the person I was before...I've changed and the people and activities in my life have changed.

So before you remove the meds make sure you have made your life as stable and healthy as possible and even then I was tapering about 6 months to get off my meds and that was after stopping after a partial reduction a full year before...getting of them is not a fast process but with persistence some people are capable of doing it. That being said I have no idea how long it will last....I'm still being monitored by a pdoc just in case...