I noticed everytime i went to a psychiatric hospital they try to push this stuff on me. and they all got abilify scales and calenders and clocks and shit. and its a NEW MEDICATION, why the fuck would they be so readily to pass out a med that has not alot of time of testing and stuff? and my psychiatrist when i got back from there said straight up THEY ARE TOLD BY THE DRUG COMPANIES TO PUSH DRUGS. but he recommended alternatives to me. so yeah it is true they're just trying to make money and getting props from the pharm companies, ive seen it and been told it by a psychatrist man. so its not just some paranoid idea people have, its true. honestly the first time, it MADE ME CRAZY, i was there for anxiety and some depression, not bipolar schizophrenia, which is what it was prescribed for. they have 5's 10's and i guess 15's in my case, they STARTED me on two 15's a day. it just mad e fuckin crazy as hell for a week i took it, til i randomly just started puking all over the place, i decided yeah i am allergic. i was convinced the crazy stuff was me, and so i kept taking the drug to combat the craziness, but it was only fueling it. not good stuff in my opinion.
Abilify patients also tend to put on weight faster than oprah winfrey at a cheesecake factory Hotwater
Marijuana may well be more effective in dealing with depression but since it does not contribute to the obscene pharmaceutical profits it is still illegal in most states because the government, which is solidly on the side of big corporations, is dragging its feet in making drug policy more rational- leaving drug companies to peddle their poisons to the big group of guinea pigs known as the general population.
The weight gain is usually your body retaining water. Funny how it's hold all that water, but you get no benefit from it. You will still dehydrate, because of how the water is bound up. After your body starts retaining water, you slow down and sometimes become lethargic. And then the fat comes. A sick and pathetic trip for anyone. I think the bastards that force that crap on anyone should have their nuts cut off. Of course I speak from my experience. They diagnosed me as bi-polar, when in the end their very own notes identified the problem as it was- post traumatic stress disorder. And those drugs only made it worse. They buried my many nightmares, until they overfilled, and when it came out life was horrible. I never needed the drugs. Ok, I am thankful that I used them, yes. But I never needed them and the effect is still felt today, ten years later.
I've been on Abilify for a few months now, and after dealing with dosing issues, I'm at a good place with the amount. I can't imagine not being on it.. I missed a few doses and became a totally different person. Finding the right dose was difficult (10s made me a zombie, 2s made me hyper... finally settled on 5s), but so worth it. I feel like I have my life back (recently diagnosed bipolar II). I did gain weight, about 10 lbs, due to the lethargy I felt when on the higher dose (couldn't get myself to the gym), but honestly, I didn't mind that trade-off.
maybe they just gave me too much, to start on 30 mgs a day i nall. i didn't get lethargic from it, at first i felt really happy and glowy, but then i felt like i have been smoking some high powered sativa, then i just went psychotic.
When I was 15-18 I was on and off of abilify. I had this shrink (my mom's in the feild more or less, so I never really had a choice) and he perscribed Abilify to every fucking kid on his caseload. We all had classes together so I know this for a fact. He was perscribing this shit across the board to all sorts of kids with whatever problem real or bullshit from like 13-18 years of age. All they said was that 'he really believes in the drug' which is fucking bullshit because he was just getting perks from the company. The most fucked up part about this is that for 'children and young adults' some of the more frequent side effects are increase in suicidial thoughts and actions That shit doesn't solve anything. It just makes you stop thinking about shit. I was emotionally and maturity-wise stuck in place until I finally decided to go off that shit and face up to my issues with strength and willpower and not chemical brainwashing.
