I’ve been a wreck lately. Taking Abilify has been helping for a long time. Occasionally it would stop working and we’d up the dose and then I’d be fine, but now it isn’t working at all even with a higher dose. What do I do? I keep thinking that I need to blind myself in order to fix everything. I know that I shouldn’t, but I keep thinking it would solve everything. I smoked a cigarette for the first time in a month to calm myself down. I think it worked, but I’m worried that people will be mad at me for everything.
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dont hurt urself. u might need a med change
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But why would I need a med change when it was working before?
I’m sorry you’ve been a wreck lately. Definitely don’t blind yourself, that won’t help matters. It’s probably time to make an appointment with your pdoc. Also if you’ve recently quit smoking that could explain why you’ve been having a hard time. It’s very difficult to live without cigarettes if your addicted to them. And I think people on this site were talking about nicotine changing the way meds react in our systems. So that might play a part in your difficulties. But quitting smoking is worthwhile, you’ll be much healthier overall without them. I’m a smoker and I wish nothing more than to be free of these things. Good luck and I hope you feel better.
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My meds seem to stop (well, not work as well and I relapse) every few months, and I have to
have the dose upped or a new medication added.
My doctor prescribed Latuda in addition to the Clozaril I was taking and I feel better now; Latuda was upped a few weeks ago to 80mg.
It’s all trial and error unfortunately 
I hope you feel better.
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Alright, I will see my pdoc soon
I’m trying to hide away so that nothing bad will find me. Hopefully it will all pass soon 
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Tell me if I’m wrong. When you were performing better with that Rx, how aware of your brain and mind being in you were you? I suppose what I mean is did the fact you were spoken to by brain scientists and given a scientific sort of chemical medicine to make that brain work mechanically or rather chemically…did this make you pay more attention to “what you are” inside?
Then as the Rx stopped working, did you perhaps change your beliefs about what you are inside, what everyone is inside, and about reality in general? Or perhaps did you stop paying attention to the fact that you are what you are in a brain?
The reason I’m inquiring is because I’m wondering if you were much more logical and scientifically/emperically self analytical about the thing you are in your brain which is a mind by the way. Hehe. 
And then did that perspective and attention on your mind and brain change as you became less and less improved by the Rx?
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I had the same problem with abilify. It worked great until it didn’t.
Kept having to up the dose until I was close to max dose, at which point I told my pdoc I needed a change.
Now I’m on Invega, and it works great.
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Hi buddy. Im having the same problem, I think. Since March Im a real mess. Thinking obsessively about something that happened to me. Im going to meet my pdoc this week, possibly to change the meds. I hope you get better!
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I think I’m definitely much more analytical when the meds are working. When they aren’t working, I don’t know what I am.
This sounds interesting. I like talking about this one thing.
The first thing I thought when I read that was that if the meds are not working, then naturally we believe that that is the cause of “anti-analytical” mind function or “malfunction.”
Which one is first though?
Really what I’m getting at is are you thinking about your brains and your mind in a literal way much more when the Rx works, and does this change when the Rx stops working? I assume you were more conscious of your brain and mind objectively when you were prescribed for a while, you improved, so you began living and doing things like everyone else wants to do when they don’t have any problems, but then that is why your attention was diverted off of your brain and mind, so you started falling apart again.
Sound about right? What do you think though? Does that seem right to you?
Does this sound like anyone else too?
Thanks 
Don’t hurt yourself, it is very common you only need to find another med that works, there are many others.
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I’m doing much better today guys. I’m not going to hurt myself I don’t think. I’m fluctuating more, but I’m trying to do “mindfulness exercises.” I think they’re a bit hokey, but sometimes it helps. Thanks so much for caring 
@DMAdataANDmoodanalysis You’re “chicken or the egg” question is interesting, but for me I don’t think the correlation fits. I definitely see what you’re saying, but if the meds only helped when I was paying attention to my state of mind while on the meds, then they wouldn’t be very effective meds in my opinion. I think that Abilify was helping me even when I was distracted by the every day things of life.
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