Ive been reading that Abilify is good for OCD. It could help with delusions stemming from OCD. Thats my MAJOR ISSUE is the repetitive intrusive thoughts AKA Also known as OCD. Im DEFINITELY switching from this risperdal to Abilify!
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Please do read up on antidepressants for OCD for another perspective. I’m on Abilify and an SSRI, the SSRI for OCD, the Abilify for Psychosis.
Sounds solid. Still It’s a crap shoot but @evian has some wisdom and ssri’s are good for ocd.
A good doctor will have an idea and ocd certainly can be a part of schizophrenia and needs to be addressed. I had some horrible ocd in my life. It really sux but meds help!
At one point a clinician diagnosed me with OCPD. So I definitely have that tendency. I take Rexulti, Abilify"s cousin, and it really seems to help with obsessive thoughts and some compulsive behaviors.
Can you guys please tell me what you mean by obsessive thoughts? - what it’s like? I have thoughts repeat, but I don’t know if that’s OCD or thought disorder.
Abilify has seemed to help with it.
I’ll try to explain. It is like a feeling that drives thoughts, worries, ruminations, etc. I don’t really experience the feeling when medicated but I notice the content of the thoughts. It’s like you are being driven or chased by an imperceptible idea. I believe our minds are supposed to be in our control so when clouded by ‘sticky’ thoughts, images, words, even voices, murmurs, etc. it may be a symptom of OCD. One might cope with these obsessions by blinking the eyes to control images, talk to oneself compulsively to sooth emotional distress, or other bodily or mental behaviors knowingly or unknowingly.
I admit this may not be accurate and might sound like mania but I do not have classical symptoms of OCD but I’m being treated with an SSRI for OCD due to my psychiatrists analysis.
Really? That’s nice to know and hard to believe. I took risperidone and now i took abilify. I was a zombie with risperidone (no obcessions). Now i’m on abilify and i feel active but i procrastinate a bit. So i would like to have some obcessions back 
on invega my brain worked better but increase my apetitte. I tried so many meds