I want to thank you both for your responses, and taking time out of your day to give your feedback & advice. Very valuable advice and opinions, thank you!
The only two reasons I have not responded until now are because, first of all, I used a new email service to sign up here and I wasn't receiving alerts of replies. Secondly, as you might be able to imagine, the past few weeks have been a roller-coaster of trying to manage everything involved.
To try to shorten / encapsulate my reply you both, this is where we're at now - a couple days after I posted this thread we were able to get her a new scrip for a smaller dose, which seemed hopeful as a temporary solution but she was very angry about the "brand". Apparently the brand that she received, which starts with a capital M, is considered "garbage" among experienced users of this medication. I would not have known that. But another few difficult days ensued because of her receiving a small amount of that brand. Fortunately she was able, through her practitioner and a different pharmacy, get a brand that starts with the capital T and meets her approval / needs. So despite the complications and the drastic drop in dosage (she's been allowed 30mg per day, 15mg twice a day) things have gotten much better. I'd like to think that the supplements, hydration, and compassion efforts helped, but ultimately I can see that the main issue is the medicine itself. At the moment things are stable, but it took a couple weeks to get here. There were definitely some very bad days, but at least the past few days have been a lot better.
One thing she knows for sure now - she was taking too much and she wants to work on a reduction plan. And while I can't really "spy" on her intake, it seems to me that she is abiding the new 30mg per day restriction.
It's so hard to watch someone go through this especially when you know what it feels like. Many years ago when I went down the wrong road with a prescription medication it nearly destroyed me and I'm thankful to be alive. That experience has made me very sensitive to what my wife is now dealing with, and I just want to help without seeming like I'm an enemy. After a lot of dark difficult days and nights I think we're at a point of progress - she seems to be doing fairly OK with the new reduced dose, and she also seems interested in trying to reduce dosage over time. We need to take it slow. I don't want to be her "med police" and "pill counter" because I know that can breed contempt, so I'm being very passive for the moment while she adjusts. Most all of the scary things she was saying have stopped, and we've had some "normal" days recently without much episodic incidents.
Again my apologies for not responding sooner. I've been so preoccupied with trying to hold things together (home, relations, communications, finances, etc...) that I'm running on fumes and finding it hard to keep up.
Thank you both again so much for your replies. I appreciated it more than you know!
I'm going to work on learning the private email account I set up so that I can figure out how to better stay on top of it. I'm grateful to have this forum to read and reference, especially since I think we're headed down a long slow road with this with her and our home. I definitely appreciative of the various bits of advice and perspectives you both presented. I'm very much trying to be loving and understanding, but also at the same time trying to be vigil about more danger signs and looking for progress in the right direction. Reading through both of your replies indicates the importance of both!