How do you recover from the impulsivity coursed the meds, for this can be completely stressful for me not being able to control myself.
What stabilises you.
Ie. food drinks meditation
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You can try to be more aware of your thoughts, and try to either talk to a phone help line when you feel like shopping, or overeating, or talk to the doctor. I’m going to try to go all of this year without buying any new books (a weakness of mine…I horde them a bit). I also like dark chocolate a too much. I allow it to stay in my diet because I get super depressed when I don’t get any treats at all.
I never did. I changed meds. I don’t know if it was straight up impulsivity the issue for me but abilify made me emotional, which made me impulsive, and risperdal made me hungry, which made me impulsive. In different ways but still, I really didn’t like either. Currently I’m on Latuda and I am doing honky dory. I’d like to tell you something worked for me but I’d be lying, on Risperdal I used to go out and buy a whole cake, cookies and ice-cream and eat everything in one sitting like a MadMan, just to do the same the day after. On Abilify I was a drama queen, I don’t want to get into it. Hopefully things aren’t as bad for you. If they are and the antipsychotics aren’t doing wonders in their job, you might want to bring up a possible medication change with your pdoc.
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Im on a lower dose 5mg of olanzapine and it seems to be okay for me but when i was on abilify i was extremely impulsive. Apart from food Im learning to control myself now. And have even got back in to doing art. Is going on a lower dose an option? But funnily enough food helps me alot because when im not hungry i can think alot better. I still have my moments though im still quite impulsive
I was highly impulsive before meds. Some docs think I have ADHD. Can’t just blame meds.
Meds made some impulsivity less…having no energy, no libido, no euphoria…saves me from some types of trouble. 
They made some impulsivity worse…I’m disorganized and more addictive (food, internet).
For me, a real clean diet works, with no sugar, additives, etc. Keto diet. Few food diet (anti-adhd). I’m just incapable of sticking to it…for it is so strict. But it works real well if I do.
I’m also trying if supplements work. I had some bad deficiencies.
And all sorts of external reminding structures help. Like telling other people to remind/restrain me, habit tracker/agenda, giving myself little rewards when I do well, giving myself a certain amount of cash to spend, just not buying a smartphone so I’m not constantly on it, etc etc.
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Same, Abilify made me impulsive and gave me bad addictions.
Most atypical made me have very troubling anger impulses. I guess that the reason for that is the way atypicals work by blocking serotonin. Now I’m on a D2 blocker only and no longer have these impulses.
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Only qiatiapine made me like that