Abilify had a very strange effect on me. I had severe nausea and loss of appetite both starting and tapering off the drug. When I was on it, I felt a little on top of the world, almost hypomanic like. (I have to use the terms "almost" and "like" because I have never received a bipolar diagnosis...just MDD). And 2 months after the drug started working, I crashed hard into a horrible depression and my pdoc pulled me off of it. Sorry, don't have a good story for you.