I desperately wish to be managing without medication. I managed for 8 years without medication just fine. I think I did so well because I believed I had been healed from bipolar and no longer had symptoms. Now they tell me that because I have severe symptoms I will always be on meds. Aren't all bipolar symptoms severe? Are my symptoms, minus the psychosis which has only happened twice in my life, the same as they have always been? Aren't my symptoms the same as they were prior to me being re medicated? I did just fine before. I don't know what to think. It's frustrating.