I\'ve dealt with bi-polar disorder personally, if you can do without the meds, leave them be. Honestly, and this is from experience, if you eat a healthy diet (go as natural as possible), take a good multi-vitamin every day, get good sleep, and get outside and get some fresh air and take a break when you need it you\'ll find your mood changes should be much more controlled. I know what can happen with meds... I\'ve seen it firsthand. What I\'ve seen from extended medication use for bi-polar is that one med stops working so they switch meds/dosages, get it wrong, you\'re having worse mood swings both down and up than you ever had before, as they try to figure it out and so it goes indefinitely. I\'m becoming more of a believer everyday that many of the diseases we hear about more and more like bi-polar, autism, etc. are becoming more common because of all the environmental poisons that are building up, not just the fact that were able to better diagnose these diseases now.
Drugs and Alcohol of course can set off a downwards mood swing, not the day you take them, but the days following it. I\'m not saying I don\'t drink and such but I\'ve definitely cut down and when I started paying attention to my mood after a big night of partying, I noticed it was usually not good for a few days or more afterwards. Just be aware of it, if you go crazy partying, it\'s gonna affect you... but you got to have some fun sometimes!
Stay off the meds if they\'re changing who you are and not really helping much, it\'ll be better if you\'re just yourself as long as the bi-polar doesn\'t get too bad, to the point of endangering yourself or others. Life has it\'s ups and downs, just got to deal with them when they come and not let anything get you too far down. Keep the smile on brotha and live it up while you got the chance! It\'ll all be over someday, and who REALLY knows what comes after that. Don\'t let \'em turn you into a zombie... that\'s no way to go through life, you know that.
