Anti-psychotic drug aripiprazole blamed for shopping addiction

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I mean, I’d like to blame Abilify lol….

But I don’t know if it’s the Abilify or I just have poor self control :sweat_smile:

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“A friend said that when they bumped into me in the supermarket I grabbed items almost robotically,” Ms Hoxleigh added.

“It’s really hard to see I had no control and just fluttered from one shop to another.”

Scary stuff.

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Wish id be able to change from abilify. But my nurse ignores me, i hate injections too :unamused:

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So much ads for drugs on this site!

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I totally understand this Abbi.

Abilify definitely increased my desire to want more books. :face_holding_back_tears: It’s always a fight to not buy another. Luckily, I resist it most of the time, but just barely. I also want to stuff my face all the time, with carby foods, and sugary things, to the point where I got diabetes type 2. I didn’t have this issue before Risperdal and Abilify. I didn’t want all the books either. I was suffering from SZ unmedicated for ten bleeping years, and was normal weight! I didn’t buy books excessively back then either!

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It doesn’t surprise me both psychosis and the antipsychotics you mentioned affected my impulse control significantly. In this regard there’s a lot of similarities with recreational drugs but, to be honest, if the alternative really is psychosis the loss of impulse control is going to be there regardless, the only difference is that antipsychotics might shift around where the impulse control fails. Thankfully my current antipsychotics don’t give me side-effects, having your impulse control out of whack can be very distressing. With that being said I find that when I have my impulse control suppressed doing objectively bad things for me like overeating has a slight positive effect on my negative symptoms, sort of like having my impulse control suppressed gets me to flex the long atrophied muscle that is my ability to feel like I want to do things to begin with, even if those things end up being stupid stuff like overeating in small doses I think they can play a part in recovery as long as the resulting sense of diminished agency doesn’t become distressing in and of itself.

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