http://www.aboutlawsuits.com/abilify-gambling-study-116022/
Fortunately I haven’t gambled in 3 months!
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shame on abilify for making people go to the race track
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I would bet 100 bucks their all wrong 
I’m on it and have no urge to gamble.
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I’ll see your 100 and raise you 100. This abilify really makes me feel stable
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I know that Abilify is a very popular Antipsychotic and it helps many people here on this site, but it wasn’t a good med for me.
My psychosis was either triggered by using it or it just did not work for me so well and I experienced Hallucinations on it.
I never had a gambling problem on it.
Thank Goodness.
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I’m ok but things can still trigger me
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I’ve been watching football nonstop and sweating.
I’ve called my bookie three times in the last hour to make sure he had my scores right. That’s all since I began abilify 5mg
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I had a serious gambling problem when I was on abilify. I would walk all the way into town with just 20p to gamble. I would gamble all my money for drugs (abilify made me a serious junky as well), and it was impossible to avoid the urge for drugs and gambling. I can’t believe it. But everyone’s different and not everyone gets these side effects with abilify. I guess I’m one of the unlucky ones. I was in debt for years thanks to abilify. I had to borrow money off my family constantly to feed my drug addiction and gambling addiction. I’m off abilify now and I’m back on risperidone consta, which doesn’t cause any of these side effects. The worst thing about abilify was the cannabis addiction, I literally couldn’t focus without cannabis. I would have this extremely empty numb feeling of intense Borden that only cannabis would fulfill. Cannabis was constantly on my mind, all the time. It’s like I was living a life of a cannabis addict. I like cannabis but I didn’t want to evolve my whole life around it. Sure I don’t mind having the odd joint now and then( like once every 3 months) but I really don’t care for it anymore, the way I did on abilify. I didn’t buy food and bought cheap crap food all the time so I could save money for cannabis. I would spend £180 on weed on my small pay, and on my big pay I would spend £420 on it. I “had” to have THC/cannabis all the time, if I missed a day without weed I would have an intense feeling of bordem and this really empty feeling of no feelings, just zombified emotionless irritating feeling. I’m glad to be off abilify and gambling and drug addiction.
It’s not just gambling, it’s lack of impulse control. Basically what people get with mania or hypomania except it isn’t a mood swing, it’s just a total loss of judgment.
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I’ve been on abilify for 10 years and I feel the same way about cannabis. It helps with that restless feeling Abilify gives me, plus the remaining mood swings. I decided to cut it out and I haven’t had any for a week or so, but I caved today.
I did notice an increase in sex drive with abilify. i have become insatiable, i demand attention several times a week despite knowing that my bed pal only wants to once a week. I even went to a different guy-an exfriend who turned out to have erectile dysfunction problems-so I stopped calling him after a few attempts.
A decade ago, I wouldn’t have been so desperate I’d call up some guy from my past to meet my needs—meaning to help me get through one or two weeks with no sex. Wondering now if that is the abilify…it’s been like this for a while now, but not when I was in my early 20’s (pre-abilify).
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Wow! This is really interesting. When I tried abilify I had an argument with my psychiatrist because I told him it was over stimulating and made me restless and agitated. He argued that abilify doesn’t do that. 
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I hate when doctors are so sure a med doesn’t have some side effect when clearly that’s how it’s effecting you. They’ll be the first to say meds are a little different for everyone but then refuse that things are happening if it’s not listed on the package. So infuriating.
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Maybe you’re just hormonal.
I have a severe gambling problem on abilify,… lost 100k because of anti depressants and stimulants
i feel ashamed : (