Some mentall Ill people do this, and I was one of them. Abilify helped clear it up. And my scalp has healed.
Also I’m not positive yet, but I think my delusions may be lessening too.
It’s been a long road to recovery because I feel like I have an “enemy” who didn’t provide catharsis when I forgave, and a “love interest” who doesn’t reciprocate my feelings. It’s been distracting for me, because there’s nothing to be done. BUT, I’m thinking about both things a lot less these days.
It’s still not all great, I think I insulted my dentist yesterday… so the “reality testing” was a failure… and it makes me want to isolate more. But it’s still early on Abilify.
Yes I mostly wanted to report good news about my Abilify since recently I was going back and forth on it. Maybe it’s going to work out. No med has ever moved the needle on my delusions before… their grip is less tight on me now.
It’s good that you’ve found something that’s helping. It can be a tedious process trying meds and going through all the different changes. For me, they seem to work a while and then lessen in their effectiveness. I’m on Latuda now and it seems to be working pretty good. I wish you continued luck on the Abilify.
Thank you! I went through the different meds perhaps too quickly a long time ago, and recently made the decision to revisit Abilify. Maybe my chemistry is a little bit different now as well. I tried Latuda once but my mother didn’t like how I was, I actually wanted to give it more time. That’s interesting the APs lose effectiveness for you, I never went through that, but maybe that’s because they didn’t have enough effect in the first place for me.
Congratulations. I wish I could stop. I’m going on over a year with this current episode, I just can’t let them heal. I’ll even go two days and then whamo I gotta do it. I’ll be yelling in my head don’t do it and I have to anyway. It’s disgusting.
I know, it’s like we’re trying to get inside our head and effect changes maybe. That’s how I look at it, sort of a subconscious thing. Did you say earler you have OCD tendencies? I was also a compulsive water drinker but that too seems resolved.
Don’t beat yourself up, and just know that I did this for like 6 years.