Balance...the Holy Grail of bipolar. Something that comes naturally to NONE of us. I was doing really well for a long time, but I think the changing of the seasons made it easier to fall back into old habits. I used to be awful at taking meds, of any kind. I've been on a number of blood pressure meds for a couple of decades and only in recent years have I been compliant most of the time. I still manipulate them so I don't take my water pill on a day when I have to be somewhere during the early part of the day, but otherwise I'm good with the regimen. I've also been religious about taking my bipolar meds until recently. I don't know WTF is going on with me or why I want to shake things up other than the fact that it's Spring and I want to feel different from my usual boring self. I don't want to go into full-blown mania but I don't think I will, I'm still taking my APs at night like I'm supposed to and I'm getting adequate sleep for the most part. My sleep has gotten a little wonky in the past few weeks...I keep waking up at night and I don't fall asleep till around 0100 most nights. But I get up around 0900 every morning, the second half of the night always seems to go better than the first half and I get most of my quality sleep between 0400 and 0800. Tha'ts always been my way...I don't do early mornings as far as getting up is concnerned. Today I had to get up at 0700 to get my hair done and did fine even though I didn't really get to sleep till the early AM hours.