Hi, all,

I have been dealing with my diagnosis for the past 5 years. After the birth of my fourth child, I suffered Post Partum Psychosis. I heard voices, saw things, thought of harming myself and children, major depression...you get the idea. I ended up getting pg again with #5 (dh got a vasectomy while I was pg). After that, all symptoms came back, except, I ended up in the psych ward with some other, more severe symptoms. If I'm not on an anti-psychotic, my symptoms come back, full force.

Since then, my psych has diagnosed me with Bi-polar II and we've found a pretty effective cocktail. The problem is, it's a lot of meds to take and I'm severely overweight. So we've started tapering off my Abilify. Every day to every other day, to every 3 days, to every 5 and now I'm down to weekly.

So, here's the problem: I went down to weekly this week and for the past 3 days I can barely get out of bed, I'm crying constantly, my kids are suffering, I'm taking extra doses of Clonazapam to deal with anxiety associated with this. Basically, I'm a wreck. Is this common for withdrawal with Abilify, or do I need to re-up my dose? My psych is on vacation till next week, but did say if it got out of hand to bump back up to every 3 or 5 days. If this is temporary, I don't want to bump back up and have to taper back down again...

Anyone experience this? Is it normal to feel this way coming down from Abilify?