Saw pdoc today and he wants me to drop from 5 mg of Abilify to 2.5 for at least a week then off completely.

I do need to get off Abilify; it's causing me to head toward metabolic syndrome. But having read some about withdrawal I am concerned.

I also take welbutrin, buspar, cyclobenzadrine, nortiptylene, with xanax, nuvigil, ambien, zyprexa as needed.

Anybody stop Abilify so suddenly? What can I do to minimize any "discontinuation syndrome" (which is apparently the politically correct way to describe coming off psychotropic drugs)?