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Aug 12, 2011, 03:40 PM
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So i've been experiencing psychosis a bit recently, it doesnt happen very often though, only when in a mixed state and i havent been having a lot of those recently.
I went to see pdoc yesterday and was in a full blown mixed state, he wants me to go on abilify, if i get up to 150mg of Lactimal and the symptoms havent gone. I'm worried about this. If you gave Abilify to a normal person who didnt experience psychosis what would happen? i know its not a drug you can just take when you need it, else it wont really work, but wont it affect me badly when i'm not suffering any psychosis.
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Aug 12, 2011, 04:16 PM
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I take Abilify and do not have psychosis. It was added to my antidepressant to boost its effects. It doesn't create any mental problems although, as with all drugs, there can be side effects.
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Aug 12, 2011, 06:04 PM
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Some people experience restlessness with Abilify, but it makes me a little bit on the sleepy side.
Everyone is different though.
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Aug 12, 2011, 06:10 PM
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I am like Anneinside, Abilify was added to my antidepressant. I have never experienced psychosis from it. My body gets very restless and I feel like I have to keep moving. I also have tremors from it, they are undercontrol most of the time with cogentin.
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Aug 12, 2011, 07:54 PM
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I've never had psychosis, but I have been on abilify. It helped with depression and racing thoughts.
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Aug 12, 2011, 09:04 PM
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I took abilify to up the effectiveness of my antidepressant. Never been psychotic. LOVED it but didn't sleep well on it.
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Aug 12, 2011, 09:48 PM
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I've been taking Abilify, and my understanding is that, for me, it is to prevent psychosis.
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Aug 12, 2011, 11:08 PM
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Abilify was added to my mix after I punched someone in a Walmart parking lot that ticked me off. It helped with my extreme irritability and rage. May help with my depression, too? No side effects, maybe makes me sleepy.
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Aug 13, 2011, 12:02 AM
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#10
Aug 13, 2011, 05:31 AM
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I'm worried because i hated seroquel so much.
But it might be worth a try because i'm very agitated and crazy at the moment.
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Aug 13, 2011, 08:22 AM
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I can get very agitated on meds and it did not do that with me. Didn't make me a zombi either. I took seroquel once, didn't think I would make it through the night... for me Abilify is totally different. I was told it took time to get to a 'therapeutic level' in your system though... but then I am not with that Pdoc any more...
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Aug 13, 2011, 11:20 PM
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Quote:
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"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things". I Corinthians 13: 4-7
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Aug 14, 2011, 08:01 AM
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I had a panic attack because i didnt realise they couldnt MAKE you take it, and i thought they were going to say i had to!
Its bloody awful that drug is. If my symptoms are not helped when i am up to 150 lactimal i will accept that i need to try abilify.
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