I personally found that abilify was one of those drugs where I needed to make large increments in dosage in order to see a noticeable improvement. I started off at I think the minimum of 2.5mg. I didn't see any positive effect at first until I reached 15. Then when my mood tanked, we increased it to 20 and no positive result. Finally saw some improvements at 30mg... but then it pooped out several months later.

That's just my experience. I found the same to be true with Latuda and Rexulti. Seroquel was the odd one where all I needed to do was make a slight increase and the effects would be extremely noticeable (although not in a good way for me).