hopefully she will be fine with dropping all the meds at the same time. lithium alone is not fun to come off of. My friend who's been on a couple different drugs before has decided to quit cold turkey on more then one occasion and it just resulted in getting her physically sick. Another person i know was on lithium and she quit taking it (don't know if it was cold turkey or if she weened herself off) but supposively she is doing much better for herself now. She feels that dealing with her psychiatric problems is much better then dealing with all the side effects that the meds gave her. I personally have never been on something as serious as xanax and lithum, only effexor for a short period of time, and coming off that made me very very sleepy (being on it made me sleepy too so it really was only slightly worse for a couple days).
I wish you and your daughter all the best of luck and i hope she's feeling better enough to deal with her demons once she's off the meds. you guys are in my thoughts.
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