have you had a mental illness and been successful without meds (please read all of it)?

If you have pretty severe depressive bipolar or paranoid schizophrenia and tell me I should never go off of my meds because you are horrible without them I don't want to hear it. I'm going to tell you my story. I have bipolar lite. Which is a mix of 1 and 2. I've been off of my meds symptom free for up to a year. Without any special lifestyle changes. My freshman year in high school. I actually had cancer at the time. It was very stressful, but my bipolar was fine during that time. I also have adhd and was able to function without meds for a time and still get good grades, but it seems those symptoms go up and down and I'm still working on that too. I had cancer and have struggled with drugs in the past. I've had some terrible eating habits as a child, and basically I've just been really bad to my body and the cancer I had was extremely extremely bad. I now eat only organic fruits and vegetables plus some fish (obviously this is not my complete diet, but I only eat organic and no meat but fish), I will not touch drugs what so ever. Not even for my allergies or colds. My doctor has seen my improvements in my bipolar and has put me on a very low dose, she has explained theres a possibility of taking me off of them completely in a year or so. I am basically trying to get myself to completely natural medications and holistic methods to treat all of my physical and mental ailments. I also have chronic fatigue from having cancer, so it has been holding me back from my future pursuits. I am 19 now. It is another reason I wish to stop medication. These drugs are also extremely unsafe. If you are suicidal and have no way of going without taking them, it's understandable. But I'm really feeling that it's time for me to find another way. I already most likely will have a shorter life. I'm adopted and my birth mother and some others in my maternal family died young, and with the health problems I've already had it seems safer to be as kind to my body as I possibly can. Obviously I will talk to my doctor before I finalize any plans to stop them completely and may be switching to another doctor I had been working with who I think would have these same interests in mind. I won't do it right away until the both of us are comfortable with it. I'm wondering if any of you here have done the same. I don't want to know if you just tossed them in the sink and went into a manic episode. I want to know if you truly prepared yourself. If there were any holistic methods you used, various types of meditating, holistic supplements, foods, any and all lifestyle changes that may have worked for you. I really don't want to hear that it's impossible. Because believe me, it's not. There are books on people who tried medication and suffered severe side effects either permanent or that almost killed them leading them on journeys for safer ways to be alleviated of symptoms. Studies show that pharmaceutical drugs wrongly prescribed, accidentally taken incorrectly (not abused), causing severe adverse side effects, and damage from long term use, kill up to 1 million people in the world per year.

I would just like any successful stories and alternative and healthy methods that you used. Please no other answers. Because, I have done my research so I don't want to hear anyone trying to tell me otherwise. I'm perfectly stable, and am already on very little medication.