I echo what TnT said---one should NEVER stop all meds cold turkey if one can possibly help it. Our brains get used to being bathed in certain chemicals, and when we alter the composition of those chemicals, it really messes with how our brains function. It's different for different people, as well as different according to what meds we were taking, but the vast majority of people who suddenly stop all their psychotropics experience withdrawal symptoms, and these can be hell.

I'm not kidding. I tried going off Celexa from a tiny, 10 mg dose this summer and promptly went into a mixed episode. I went through 15 days of exquisite suffering before being put back on it. Then a couple of months later, I tried discontinuing Zyprexa, which threw me into a hypomanic episode within 48 hours. Obviously, my brain needs these drugs to function at its best; to call an abrupt halt would be shooting myself in the foot.

Look, I get it. As a nurse, I make a lousy patient, and I've fought "taking pills" my whole life. I don't relish the prospect of spending my remaining Sunday nights filling my med minder with the three blood-pressure pills, two allergy pills, a diabetes pill, Vitamin D, fish oil capsules, and four "crazy pills" I have to take every day. BUT~every single one of those meds is critical, not only to my survival, but to my quality of life.