My weekly pill boxes (two) are pretty much mandatory for me. It reduces stress. It does take a little time to fill them once per week, but that effort is worth not having to fart around with several pill bottles twice per day. I put them in a pretty painted box on my dining room table, where I eat every day. The box is directly to the right of me. If I did forget despite that, I could put the sucker right in the middle of my place mat.

They sell pill boxes in every pharmacy, and Amazon definitely has them. Attached are two photos. One with all of the pill bottles, incl. hubby's. The other with three weekly pill boxes (2-mine, 1-my husband's). [I need to fill them today.] The pill boxes are less intimidating. No? Plus, I can see if I took them that day or not. Some bottles I need meds from for both morning and evening. Three are different Seroquel XR doses (400 mg / 200 mg / 50 mg). I take 50 mg in the morning and 650 mg at night. My Seroquel XR doses change frequently. I have to take 6 pills of Tegretol XR each day alone (3 pills morn / 3 pills evening). It's nuts, but necessary!

I am glad you stopped at the one beer. Please don't pick up that habit again! You know how easily it can get out of hand. I know.

My pdoc became reluctant to aggressively treat my depressions, too. Honestly, they were much more harmless than my manias, which often became severe manias w/mixed features and psychosis. Many of my worst were likely triggered by adding an AD to my mix, which always included a moodstabilizer and antipsychotic. Many things easily trigger mania in me. My manias are much more dangerous. When I'm purely depressed, I rarely even have SIs. I'm just in bed 23 or 24/7, barely even thinking.