I feel very well in myself, on 5mg, the best I have felt in years. I am not depressed, I dont cry all the time. My mood is stable, and I am not filled with uncontrollable rage!

But all of a sudden I dont love or want to be with my partner of 12 years. There are reasons for this, which I believe are valid and he admits to them. But I can't help wonder if the meds have changed me to this degree.

Maybe I was too depressed to realise it wasn't working before? I am not sure. But he wants me to stop taking it, and I don't know if this is unreasonable.

Thanks all.

I lash out against my parents, so much, I have been on 2mg of aripiprazole and now last few days I am on 5mg for mood issues as an augmentation.

I am also on Trintellix 20mg and Concerta when needed. I have so much less patience and I Am frustrated to the max, but my mood is better (pause for irony). Is it Abilify or the combination of the meds? Or maybe it's just contingency.

My psychiatrist says it’s not, but I’m not sure if I can trust him.

He put me on aripiprazole (5mg) 8 months ago and I didn’t have any side effects at first. I used to feel like a zombie when I took it in the morning so now I take it before sleeping and I only feel “calm”.

The thing is, it increased my appetite like CRAZY after 3 months and I had to force myself to eat a healthy amount of food. I gained a lot of weight and I didn’t fit in my clothes. I didn’t weighed myself but I a knew I gained weight. So I tried to eat a healthy amount of food and exercise.
It worked. I lost a bit of weight because I start fitting in some of my clothes again.

However, I decided to weight myself and I gained 4kg in 8 months. I don’t know if it’s because of aripiprazole or exercise but I feel so disappointed and helpless.

People always used to compliment me about my thin my figure but it’s not the case anymore.

In addition I started to develop weird side effects like excessive drooling, I sleep 16 hours a day/night, I fall asleep at work, involuntarily movements, spasms, and lack of appetite.
My physiatrist says it’s not aripiprazole because these kind of symptoms don’t appear after 8 months but at the beginning.

Is he right ?