I feel really awful on antipsychotics

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And Ive been on them nearly a decade. Do you feel like crap too?

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It varies.

I take my Abilify at 6pm, so I get most of the day feeling kind of ok.

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I think i feel a great lack of enthusiasm and energy on them. But i dont knowc if thats also the illness/depression. Its really hard to show the difference.

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I like taking my aps.
It’s been 8 years already

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I’m on Ap’s 25 years

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I think like crap without meds. I felt hell on earth without meds. Give me meds or give me death!

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I’ll give you liberty.

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I’m fortunate to be on abilify. It doesn’t really have any side effects. But in the past I’ve been on medication that makes me feel like crap.

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What do you mean?

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APs hammer the snot out of me. I do my best to minimize my dose.

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Right now Im stuck on the max dose

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I reduced my ap dosage by 1/4 recently with doctors approval. Not sure Im noticing a difference.

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I take that back. I am sleeping better and dreaming…just not sure I’m noticing a difference in the areas I was shooting for (more pleasure, more energy).

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I was replying to the guy right above me. Patrick Henry.

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I actually took abilify about a year before I got sick. It was a really weird feeling. Kind of a mild dissociation with this weird charge, like somebody turned a taser so low that it’s almost imperceptible then hit you with it perpetually. After the break I was so out of it, it was hard to notice anything specific about how they made me feel, other then the akathasia.

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i have no energy. im on invega sustenna 117 and abilify 20. plus seroquel at night. ive gained weight and am physically tired with little motivation. i want to take less invega. i think its the main cause.

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i think there is a mistake in amount of AP or the timing
there are doctors dho give sedative meds in the morning !!!

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If I take care of myself, eat well and exercise, and sleep, I can go from feeling like crap to OK, or pretty good. While before, not being on APs my baseline was feeling OK or pretty good. Or something like that.

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You could try clozapine. I know it sounds drastic but is the only antipsychotic I can tolerate even though I don’t have severe schizophrenia symptoms. Best of luck.

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