Think of the delay in progress as just temporary. When you get the issues happening in your life behind you, you can work on decreasing your meds again. The hardest lesson I have learned in my life is patience. Sometimes we can't make our goals happen as quickly as we want but that doesn't mean we can't make it happen when the time is right. Hang in there and please don't tell yourself that you are a failure. It was smart to tell your psychiatrist what was going on and if you told them that the voices were associated with stress, I think the psychiatrist might be more willing to decrease the dose again when your life settles down.