Well, I recently tried going off my antipsychotic, and for the first few days it was great. I felt like I really had my mind back.

And then I took a turn for the worse and realized that yes, I did indeed have my mind back. And it can be a scary ****ing place.

It's a double-edged sword. I try to stay on as low a dose as possible so that my creativity and all the connections my brain makes between things aren't totally squashed, but it's not the same as not being on it where everything is a rapid fire kaleidoscope of multiple layers of meaning and significance.

Buuut things can get kinda scary when they're like that too, so...

Double-edged sword. I'm having more difficulty now with accepting that I have to take an antipsychotic than I did when I first started (because when I first started I was experiencing horrendous paranoia).

I wasn't on Abilify long enough to notice anything significant from it. I went off of it after it made me rapidly gain about ten pounds.

My pdoc put me on Latuda after that, and I've been on it ever since. It actually helps with my hypersomnia. And it definitely helps with the paranoia.

There are a couple more APs I've seen around here that I didn't see on your list - maybe you could try them if you haven't already?

Invega (oral)
Invega Sustenna (injection)
Saphris

I don't know much about them, but I have read that people have had success with them.

Anyway, it does suck having to be on meds. It would be nice if more research were put into methods that helped us to learn how to cope and function without meds.