I’ll be taking my Abilify back up to 20 milligrams from 15. I spent 3 weeks at 15 milligrams and did not enjoy myself. Paranoia, mostly, as you can see from the prior posts. I highly recommend it for anyone noticing these symptoms. I just hope that going down and then [...]
It’s been one week since I lowered my Abilify (its chemical structure is the mascot of this blog) to 15 mg from 20 mg at the urging of my psychiatrist. He feels that 20 mg is too large a dose. So I took him at his word, figured why not? Lower it, and see what [...]
Am I taking medication simply because everyone else is, because I’m just caught up in a fad, a decades-long fad, or because I really need them? Had I been born in a different time, would I be considered mentally unwell? I think so, yes, but that doesn’t stop me wondering what life would [...]
For me, it’s like an electric shock in the middle of the night. Hello, world! I’m awake! It’s 4 a.m. and it’s time to get something started. On nights when I’m extremely tired I just sit on the side of the bed, swaying slightly until I fall back onto my pillow. [...]