I am sorry about the hallucinations. I don't know if it could be abilify or not. Wiz didn't take that for long. The doctor was totally sold on how wonderful it was, but Wiz had TD problems within a week of starting it, though the idiot psychiatrist told us it was impossible to get that reaction from it.
I am sorry the kids can't go inpatient and get real help with medication washes, especially coming off of antidepressants like prozac and effexor. But even if they were inpatient the docs would deny the problems or any medications to deal with symptoms. A very slow medication wash done where you can supervise and then help with any real symptoms is probably better, though not fun at all. (I have to say that several docs have advised in the past that conditions are often monitored much more closely when a patient is at home with family than when the patient is in a hospital room. At home the family cares more (NOT that nurses/staff don't care - TOTALLY NOT meaning that) and knows what is normal for the patient and what is not. This is why husband came HOME with serious pneumonia rather than going into the hospital for monitoring. The doctor knew I would make sure he was supervised 24/7 and in the hospital I couldn't be there all the time because the kids.
That is why we have done medication washes at home. The ONE time we tried it in the hospital they took Wiz off Effexor cold turkey and didn't give him anything to help with the withdrawal (because there really is NO withdrawal from effexor - it is all a big conspiracy to make people afraid to take it, in the words of the psychiatrist at the psychiatric hospital!) until he tried to kill himself and they found that he had been cutting while he was in his room at night and in the bathroom! Then they gave him luvox ASAP. He was off the effexor for less than 36 HOURS before he tried to kill himself!
I hope things go well with the medication wash and the hallucinations go away.
Of course we took him off it, but it took several weeks to stop the pro