You are completely within your rights to ask for a medication review. I can hear how fed up you are and how much you feel taking meds is a barrier to you living the life you want.
My concern for you is that your mental health team might argue that you are happier and more stable now because of, rather than in spite of, the medication. But depression and other mental health symptoms can absolutely lift and the best way of testing this would be to see how you get on without whilst under close supervision of your team. Like Sarah said, it's important to make changes with professional input as otherwise it could be used against you (sadly).
Have you ever read anything by Jim Read? He's written a lot for Mind and done quite a bit of work on the 'cons' of psychiatric drugs. I just wonder whether citing some research might help your case.
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