[eye2797]

I want to quit my meds, my therapy. I figure they work most of the time so why take something and do something that only works so so.
I wont need to spend money on meds or therapy. or Doc bills.
I am pretty stable right now but I feel that the boat is rocking a bit and than I will go through the BS med change or raise.
So my theory is if not on any meds than I know why I feel like crumb. Is this an episode of something?
who knows.
oh well, time to learn how to go off meds, how to titrate down on them safely.

[Daonnachd]

"Most of the time" is not "so-so" in my book. I would say that's well enough to merit sticking with.

Look at the cost of meds as an investment preventing the greater costs of hospitalisation.

[~Christina]

Your post could have been written by thousands and thousands

What to do ?!!

Vertigo made a hell of a point

[*Laurie*]

^^^ I agree.

[Victoria'smom]

If you don’t want a med change or increase say it. Discuss it with your dr, talk to your therapist about what you want and how to approach it with your dr. Make a plan with your therapist to get you through this without changing meds. Know meds don’t fix everything or even most things. See if your therapist will even work with you unmedicated.

If you’re going to stop therapy do so slowly. Every 2 weeks for 2 months, every 3 weeks for 2.5 months, 1x a month for 3 months, 1x a month every 2 months for 6 months, 4x a year for 6 months, then 2x a year. It keeps you in the system if you ever do need to see a therapist.

[Movingon69]

Talk to your pdoc or therapist and be honest about how you're feeling. Please don't stop taking the medicine. My husband is a firefighter and sister-in-law works at the state mental hospital. They both say the cases they see that are so concerning is when patients stop taking their medicines. Sometimes it is because they "feel good" and don't need them. Sometimes it is a money issue. But from their stories I'm determined to stay on my meds.

[eye2797]

Thank you for the replies and understanding. I see where each one of you is coming from. I guess I just felt that since I was starting to feel a little bit down compared to how I have been feeling which was a little bit up that I wanted to just give up on all of it. Not on life just the meds and therapy. Yes we have all been doing this for a very long time back and forth on medication feeling good not feeling good. I will now look at this in a different way and give myself a few days to see how I feel and then I will talk with my Dr. Let him know that I did have the thoughts of going off meds so that he can get the whole picture. I have always been pretty open and honest with him and I don't need to stop being that way. It goes the same with my therapist honest and open with her. I just saw her on Monday and overall I was feeling pretty good. I swear it's like night and day sometimes you wake up in the morning and never know how you're going to feel.