Trust me. I DO NOT plan on stopping my meds anytime in the near future. ;o) I DO NOT want a repeat of my last episode. I'm even staying on the seroquel, despite how I'm worried about becoming morbidly obese on it and only being able to fit into sweat pants. And how it makes me want to eat everything and I dream about frosting and chocolate cakes and fantasize about buffets.

I would take depression any day over my last episode. At least when I'm depressed I'm a stable depressed person! During my last depression episode it sucked, and I was suicidal, and I lost about twenty pounds, but at least I was stable (well, stable depressed!). And I was able to deal with it a lot better. Luckily I came out of that one on my own (and with a lamictal dose increase).