Posted by stan_the_man70 on May 21, 2015, at 6:09:51
In reply to when can you reduce AAP/AP dosage?, posted by Christ_empowered on May 20, 2015, at 13:42:22
C_E:
Based on my experience Abilify is fairly easy to withdraw from. You will have very few days at the start when things will be drastically bad, but it stops fairly quickly. Depends on how slowly you taper, depends on how long you been taking it, depends on what else you taking, depends on your general health, depends on how many times you tried to stop earlier.
Also depends on what else you are doing to occupy your mind, your time, your energy, and your needs.
There have been other posts, by other people, on how to reduce off antipsychotics such is zyprexa, which is a lot more difficult.
I had also suggested earlier on how to create a daily log of your activities - pills, dosage, morning/night dosage, sleep hours, mood rating, energy level, anxiety level, psychosis level, physical activity hours, social activity hours, mental activity hours - etc - It's in a different post. It's extremely essential in case you are doing any increase or taper for any medication - this way you will not panic - and know when to up the medication again in case you are in the danger zone.
As has been stated before - you need to try out till you find a diet that suits you (raw or vegan or juicing or smoothies or health foods), physical activity level to one that suits you (sports or gym or aerobics or stretching or martial arts), mental activity (job or creative work or music or study or brain exercise games in person or website), social activity (religious or arts or festivals or outdoors or volunteering) and so on.
So far I have not found any kind of a magic formula or cure or relief or solution or otherwise. That's sad. But that should not stop anyone else.
(no flames please)
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