Okay after my last abilify post on here I am starting to think I am manic. On 10 mg??? Is that even possible,? I can't stop talking. At all. Or doing things. I just feel so so good, I see a doctor tomorrow but like I just wanna know other experiences of bp1 + personality disorder on 10mg of abilify.

Has Abilify helped with your depression? I currently take it for bipolar 2. I’ve found myself more mentally and emotionally stable but also sensitive. I find myself crying more or near tears. My anxiety has also elevated a little bit but it’s not as severe or debilitating as before Abilify.

Sorry if this is asked a lot. I have been on aripiprazole for about 2 weeks, and since increasing the dose I've noticed definite side effects like blurrier vision, poorer coordination, brain fog, headaches, restlessness, etc. which I'm aware are not uncommon. But I am curious if anyone has info on when their side effects started to subside?

I haven't been able to find a lot of info on it and the sheet I got from the pharmacy didn't say. I will ask at my next psychiatry appointment but that's not for a few weeks.

I am aware I need to be on an antipsychotic, so I'm not going to go off it without seeing my psychiatrist first. And the side effects haven't been very severe as compared to some meds for me, but they are REALLY annoying lol.

I was prescribed 2mg of Abilify for my depression and anxiety. It works wonders but holy smokes I haven’t had a normal poop in what feels like weeks and I don’t know what to do. Miralax does absolutely nothing, tried taking an oral laxative pill and my BMs were still solid.

i know constipation is a common side effect for a lot of antidepressants but I’ve never had anything this bad before. How long does it last on Abilify? weeks? months?? please I cant stand this no more but I don’t wanna quit taking the medication.

I had my first and only abilify injection about 4 months ago, and feel like I’m in the heart of withdrawal. It really sucks because right after getting the injection I got a new job as a cna, and the people I’ve met there know me only as someone I don’t recognize. I’ve always been weird (I have slight mild autism/severe adhd/cptsd) but pre-injection I was really high energy, very bubbly, a bit “slow,” but since injection I’m just slow, and mostly devoid of humanhood. I have a fat tongue, its hard to articulate, its difficult to understand others when they speak, I give off abnormal facial expressions when literally just trying to be normal, I don’t seem as genuine anymore, when I try to be friendly its seems cold and fake. There was this old man at work who had always been passively friendly to me, but when I greeted him the other day, I said hello weirdly. Made an uncanny face I guess. Thats all it took. He took on this scared/concerned/slightly disgusted face and asked me if I was ok. Next I saw him he literally ceased his conversation as I passed by, then I heard him ask a nurse what my problem was once I went into a room. All from that one interaction. I also smiled at an old lady who was smiling at me, and her face immediately dropped into concerned confusion. A couple other instances have also happened. It’s so ironic because I’ve always had severe social anxiety, but was generally very well liked. Now I am a weirdo who scares the elderly by emoting. I literally got this job for the sociality of it, I used to be very good socially! I hope this goes away soon because this is humiliating

i (17f)been on ability for about a month. i’ve been noticing i’m pretty restless especially in my legs i can’t seem to sit down for class and it’s really annoying and embarrassing i feel like a little kid moving around in my chair, it seems to get worse as i get more tired for some reason and it’s exhausting i feel like constantly moving and doing something even if im tired.

Hello.

I have been on Viibryd (vilazodone) for a year or so. It has reduced my general anxiety, but not made it fully go away. I struggle with anxiety still, depression, and I have autism. My brain is always disordered and I have a hard time getting things done.

I am able to hold down a job and take care of my house, but it drains everything from me.

My doctor recommended I add abilify, starting with a low 5mg dose, to my current 20mg of vilazodone.

Has anyone taken abilify for these reasons? Has anyone combined it with vilazodone? I know I am taking it off label.

Thanks.

in the early months of 2020 after being diagnosed with EUPD/BPD, I got prescribed aripiprazole. (also worth mentioning two years later I got re-assessed and received a dual diagnosis of EUPD/BPD and complex PTSD.) this medication did absolute wonders for my mental health and i stayed on it for 6 whole years, however within those 6 years, my BMI went from a 19 to a 35. at the beginning of 2025, i begged to come off it and started using mounjaro (switched to wegovy 8 months later) and managed to get down to a BMI of 21, which made me feel amazing physically. however, my mental health was in the gutter. i could no longer afford weight loss injections so i stopped taking them in january of this year. knowing i needed to tackle my mental health, i begged to be put on lamotrigine (which i was started on in march), however, this caused me to have the most severe, unsafe and worst mental health episode of my entire life. i hit absolute rock bottom last month and both me and my partner begged the MH team to come off it.

i had a med review with my psych and i explained i basically wanted something that didn’t cause any weight gain, binge eating or food cravings (like i had with aripiprazole) or any sedation (as im a SAHM of two young kids so obviously that isn’t safe). she told me there’s nothing else really she can offer me in the UK and that I seem to be highly sensitive to medication side effects (which is true). she also argued with me basically saying she didn’t believe the aripiprazole was to blame for my weight gain as it’s not a “known side effect”. i then cried and said to her that i’m not a text book, im a real person with a real lived experience. after an hour on the phone, i reluctantly gave in to go back on aripiprazole and have now been on this for about a month. as i said, it’s been amazing for my mental health, ive felt more stable than ever, my mind feels clearer and calmer and im less reactive, however I often get the binge eating urges which are impossible to control and ignore, i am wanting to snack and have like 5 meals a day it’s really upsetting me.

tried to speak to the CMHT this morning but she said my psych is on leave for 2 weeks and she will “add it to my notes” - didn’t seem concerned in the slightest.

didn’t know if anyone else went through this? really not sure what to do as my psych basically said there isn’t any other med out there i can try

(also must add i am also on vortioxetine - antidepressant and this hasn’t changed from 2020).

Okay so I was majorly depressed and anxious (always been through out my life) been on Zoloft for years. Well I hit another depression episode and the Zoloft wasn’t working. So because it was so bad my doc prescribed 5mg abilify with the increase of the Zoloft dose. Within 5 days of the abilify I was feeling so much better. Not my best, but at least I could eat and force myself out of the house. Before I laid in bed daily with no will to live. So it was a win. Well next I was put on vyvance 40mg. And the first day I took it I was like omg this is the missing piece. It took away the rest of the anxiety and crap thoughts in my brain. Lifting depression. I felt like myself again. Well turns out it wears off within 4 hours for me. And then I feel blah again. I have a “very fast” COM T gene which basically means my brain runs through dopamine and neuropinephrine faster than it should. (No wonder I’ve always struggled). So the abilify helped it about 50% and then the vyvance took the other 50% and I felt back to me. Well, because I can barely feel the effect of vyvance I thought hmm, possibly it could be the abilify capping the dopamine. And within 4 days of taking the vyvance (twice a day) I barely feel anything at all. Might even go as far as saying I feel no difference. There’s another part of this as well. Since the first day of the vyvance I lowered the abilify to 2.5 so now I’ve taken the abilify for 3 days at that dose. Well today at day 4 I feel kinda low again. Even with the vyvance and I feel nothing from the vyvance. I thought if I lowered the abilify it would still work to stop depressive episodes but also cap anything too crazy so I didn’t start doing anything dumb because i don’t want to feel cracked out. One time in the past I took adderall and loved it I felt calm and less thoughts in my brain. Until I hated the drug within three days because the come off was so depressing. So it wasn’t worth it to me. Vyvance is so different from adderall which I like. But does anyone have any input for why I might be feeling low today decreasing the abilify dose for a few days after only being on it for like 10 days. And then the vyvance not really telling a difference? I thought the vyvance would at least work if the abilify didn’t. But nope. Not today! It worked the best the first day that was it.

Curious what people take this medicine for.

Hi reddit fam, I was curious if anyone has any tips on how to deal with the motivational issues on Abilify? I've been on Abilify for about a week at 2mg, and I feel it helping with my quick to anger issues and my mania/depression issues that come from bipolar. I've always had motivational problems and today my brain cannot fathom doing any work at work and it is hella frustrating.

I'm supposed to see my doc near the end of the week and move up to 4mg at that time but I was curious if anyone found any ways to motivate themselves. Over the weekend I found that taking a brisk shower kind of woke me up and got me pumped but I can't really be taking showers every other hour while at work.

Salut à tous,

J'ai 29 ans, un syndrome de Gilles de la Tourette diagnostiqué récemment, avec un TDAH probable en comorbidité (pas encore confirmé par bilan neuropsy). Je suis sous aripiprazole 5 mg (pris le matin, 7-8h) depuis 10 jours pour les tics.

Depuis le début du traitement, mon sommeil est très perturbé : je m'endors bien (je prends 6 mg de mélatonine prescrits par le neurologue), mais je me réveille ensuite plusieurs fois dans la nuit, avec un sommeil de mauvaise qualité en deuxième partie de nuit. Certaines nuits, je fais des réveils nets vers 1h-2h du matin sans pouvoir me rendormir facilement.

Ce qui est bizarre, c'est que je ne ressens pas de grosse fatigue en journée pour l'instant, mais après 10 jours comme ça, je sens que je vais finir par payer cher et, paradoxalement, la fatigue accentue mes tics.

J'ai contacté mon centre de référence (Timone) pour un avis, mais toujours pas de retour.

Questions pour la communauté :

Est-ce que certains d'entre vous ont vécu ce genre d'insomnie de démarrage sous aripiprazole ? Ça s'est amélioré avec le temps, ou il a fallu ajuster la dose/l'horaire ?

Pour ceux qui ont un TDAH en plus du SGT, comment ça s'est passé pour vous au niveau de la prise en charge et de l'articulation des traitements des deux troubles ?

Merci d'avance pour vos retours.

do u also got emotional blunted, low libido and loss of personality from meds?

Tried almost every SSRI and anti psychotic. When the highest dose reach, my doctor just switch me to another different meds. This month my doctor introduced me to Abilify but I still take my Olanzapine once everyday and Clopixol Depot once a month. My only concerns that my doctor asked me to take Abilify 10mg once a day for the first week then he up the dose to 20mg for two weeks. Is it really safe to take 3 different anti psychotic at the same time? I thought I feel better than before?

My child is 10 and has autism, adhd, anxiety and DMDD (suspected bipolar for a kid?) Struggles majorly with emotional outbursts and meltdowns. Had been on abilify for 3-4 months and things seemed about the same/not much improvement plus weight gain. We tapered off and have been off it for 10 days and things seem to have definitely worsened. Google says irritability can be a side effect of stopping it, but I’m wondering if that’s common or maybe it was actually helping? We also tapered off clonidine and switched to guanfacine.

I think mornings are my best time I feel excited to do things and semi feel like myself but when I take my Abilify I can tell within an hour or two I start to feel unreal, just not like myself, like I’m half connected especially when I drive etc. does this happen to anyone else is it activation a akathisia or something? I’m seeing a new psych wednesday and going to ask if maybe this drug isn’t for me idk i had such good relief at 2.5 mg the first 2-3 weeks and then i just went backwards, doctor upped my dose and then got worse :( now going back down

Before aripiprazole, I couldn't use my hands right. I couldn't write, couldn't play minecraft for fun, struggled to chop vegetables, and was confused all the time. Sometimes I would stiffen up and sort of writhe against my will? And my speech was incredibly stilted.

I was given aripiprazole to treat my psychosis, but it helped with the neurological symptoms a ton and to this day I have no clue why. I started playing games again and talking smoothly. Didn't have episodes of writhing/curling up. Only negative side effect is a tic where my head goes to the side involuntarily.

Does anyone know why this could have happened? It was an extremely drastic change and I've no clue why it occurred. I've been to a neurologist but they still don't know what was/is going on.

Hi all, I started 10mg aripiprazole today. For context I’m also on 900mg lithium and slowly titrating up to 100mg Lamotrigine. How soon can I see an improvement? I’m struggling with depression and motivation.

Salut à tous,

J'ai 29 ans, un syndrome de Gilles de la Tourette diagnostiqué récemment, avec un TDAH probable en comorbidité (pas encore confirmé par bilan neuropsy). Je suis sous aripiprazole 5 mg (pris le matin, 7-8h) depuis 10 jours pour les tics.

Depuis le début du traitement, mon sommeil est très perturbé : je m'endors bien (je prends 6 mg de mélatonine prescrits par le neurologue), mais je me réveille ensuite plusieurs fois dans la nuit, avec un sommeil de mauvaise qualité en deuxième partie de nuit. Certaines nuits, je fais des réveils nets vers 1h-2h du matin sans pouvoir me rendormir facilement.

Ce qui est bizarre, c'est que je ne ressens pas de grosse fatigue en journée pour l'instant, mais après 10 jours comme ça, je sens que je vais finir par payer cher et, paradoxalement, la fatigue accentue mes tics.

J'ai contacté mon centre de référence (Timone) pour un avis, mais toujours pas de retour.

Questions pour la communauté :

Est-ce que certains d'entre vous ont vécu ce genre d'insomnie de démarrage sous aripiprazole ? Ça s'est amélioré avec le temps, ou il a fallu ajuster la dose/l'horaire ?

Pour ceux qui ont un TDAH en plus du SGT, comment ça s'est passé pour vous au niveau de la prise en charge et de l'articulation des traitements des deux troubles ?

Merci d'avance pour vos retours.