[Orangina88]

Because of mye switchings, my doctor prescribed me abilify. so that i might get som peace in my head...

any experiences?

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Orangina88

Because of mye switchings, my doctor prescribed me abilify. so that i might get som peace in my head...

any experiences?

my experience with it is that its an antidepressant. it wont cause your DID to get better or worse and will not prevent any switching. all it does is help you to control your anxiety and depression symptoms.

example when ever I got anxious instead of dealing with the problem that was causing me to have my anxiety symptoms I would dissociate meaning I would space off then an alter would take control. on antidepressants things that were causing me anxiety (for instance a meeting with my boss) did not seem so stressful. I was able to deal with the meeting with out feeling stressed and anxious. because I wasnt anxious I wasnt dissociating.

the antidepressants didnt prevent me from hearing my alters voices, knowing my alters were there and switching into alters. all it did was calm me the aware self down and help me the aware self be able to handle stressful meetings on my own.

if for example someone belched during the meeting and my trigger was hearing belching I would still switch into what ever alter who's job/purpose/reason for being was to handle belching noises.

another example storms made me anxious and depressed. on abilify I dont feel so anxious and depressed but that doesnt stop me from dissociating (spacing out) during the storm.

theres no medication that can fix DID problems but there is medication for things like depression, anxiety, psychosis, hallucinations and other non DID like symptoms.

my point is what it will do if it works for you like it did me... is calm ....you...down. thats how you will get peace of mind, just like if a normal non DID person who took abilify it can calm them down so that they are not so depressed, not so anxious, slow the thinking process down.

"Abilify is used to treat the symptoms of psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (manic depression). It is also used together with other medications to treat major depressive disorder in adults.

This medicine is classified as an antipsychotic medication and is used to treat patients that suffer from delusions, hallucinations, unorganized thought and hostility. This medicine may also be prescribed to treat severe behavioral problems in children.

Abilify has also been approved for the treatment of irritability associated with autistic disorder in pediatric patients ages 6 to 17 years, including symptoms of aggression towards others, deliberate self-injuriousness, temper tantrums, and quickly changing moods. Irritability can be an associated behavior of autistic disorder and is manifested as aggression towards others, deliberate self-injurious behaviors, temper tantrums, aggression and quickly changing moods.

Your doctor may prescribe this medication for other conditions as well."

I have used Abilify short term for help managing symptoms related to DID. At times I found it helpful, at other times it seemed to do nothing at all.

[shezbut]

I am on a low dosage of abilify to help manage my illnesses. I do have major depression, anxiety, BPD (not otherwise specified), and dissociative disorder (not otherwise specified). My other meds to help manage my moods are buspar and effexor xr. The abilify was recently added to my regimen. It has helped me so far ~ it's been 5 months or so.

[avlady]

what it was

[beadlady29]

beads has beened on abilify 30mg far a couple of years adn it helps us keep calm and not to feel so stressed out....also not to worry so much we used to worry about nliek evrythign under the sun now not so much anymoeer.
it odesnt really keep us from switchign but liek if we are cqalmer adn not as stressed then we typiclly dotn switch as often unless triggered.
the old pdoc tried to take us off of it once adn the results was not good he put us rite back on it the very next visit which had to make early then the one that was scheduld.
hope this helps
all of us beadies

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by avlady

what it was

its a medication that helps with things like depression, anxiety, panic attacks, hallucinations, delusions, mood disorders, mood swings and other things...Im on it for my depression, bipolar, anxiety problems, my mother is on it for her menopause type mood swings, I know someone with schizophrenia /schizoaffective disorder, I also know many who is also on it for depression/anxiety symptoms..

it does not help me with my dissociative problems and did not help me with any DID associated problems that I had beforeI was integrated..

heres a link where you can read more about Abilify.....

http://www.abilify.com/Default.aspx?...hrome&ie=UTF-8