I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Having to remember to take pills every day is a pain in the butt. But I am stable and need to be on them, at least for the time being. It just sucks when they ease up a bit. The last few weeks I've been having sleep problems and I even went up a bit over the weekend. And the fact that meds don't provide immediate relief in those situations is frustrating. But off my meds I am a mess internally. I have a medical marijuana rec for sleep/depression and I'm glad I do because it helped me a lot these last few weeks for sleep and to calm my agitation. It provides more immediate relief while waiting for the meds to kick back in without interfering with them (and don't worry! I know a lot of people don't suggest marijuana for MI people, but it's not really psychoactive - does not cause psychosis - with me, more just calming and actually helps me out, so yeah). I have thought about going off med and just using mmj to manage symptoms when I need it (can't really use it too often though because it makes me soooo sleepy), but the truth is, that's not realistic for me right now. Unfortunately.
I also just bought one of those BP workbooks. It's pretty cool. Hopefully what I learn from the workbook can be put to use both with and should I ever go off my meds. Have any of you ever used one of these workbooks?