I just stopped my Saphris cold for 5 days, and restarted yesterday. I kept my other meds. During the 5 days I barely slept. I was OK the first couple of days, but then I started to get anxious and a little hypomanic. That last a day, and then I got depressed and felt like everything was pointless and meaningless. I restarted it last night, finally slept, and I'm feeling much better. I'd like to be off it, but I'm not going to try to stop it cold like that again.

I've been off and on a bunch of other meds, usually easily because I'm being switched to something similar, like switching seroquel to saphris. The only med that was really hard to come off was Effexor because of the terrible physical and emotional withdrawal. It took 6 months to taper down, and it was hell. I wouldn't take any meds for 8 years after that because it was such a bad experience. Plus, effexor never helped my depression anyway, it just made me sleep all the time and gain weight. So I'm never taking an SSRI or an SNRI again.

I'm interested in hearing how people have successfully come off antipsychotics and if you stayed stable, what helped.