> > Do you still have psychosis or are you battling primarily the affective part/ negative symptoms?
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> I still get some mild hallucinatory phenomena (mostly sound hallucinations, what I call "pseudohallucinations," and some visual stuff), but as far as I can tell, I'm not believing in all of the delusions that I believed in when my psychosis was at its peak, nor do I experience much in the way of ideas of reference like I was before I was taking Abilify.
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> So, right now, with the Abilify that I'm taking, the main problems that I'm struggling with are difficulty concentrating and other cognitive problems, fatigue (although this isn't nearly as bad as it used to be before my psychosis), and hypersomnia.
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> I've basically spent much of the past five years trying to augment my Abilify, mostly with supplements, in hopes that I might see some long-term relief from my symptoms. That long-term relief hasn't come, and I'm starting to think that it never will come for as long as I continue to take Abilify. It might not even come if I discontinue Abilify, but continuing to add supplements to Abilify in hopes of long-term relief from any of my symptoms isn't producing the results that I would like to see. I also think that the Abilify that I'm taking might be part of the reason why my concentration is as bad as it is and that if Abilify is part of the problem that the only solution to that part of the problem is to remove the Abilify.
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> Of course, discontinuing my Abilify will likely worsen my psychosis. Given the frustration and lack of productivity that have characterized the last five years of my life, I think that enduring worse psychotic symptoms in hopes that maybe at least my concentration will improve might not be such a bad thing.
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> Tomatheus
Never mind what I wrote above about Abilify. I think that I'm going to keep taking it and see if I can get in to see a general practitioner to see if my chronic fatigue and hypersomnia might be related to some sort of infection (which might be why my white blood cells are elevated).
I think that that will be my next attempt at treatment.
Tomatheus
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this signature | Show by default | Change to hide (next time)Has an affective psychosis with strong symptoms of fatigue, hypersomnia, and difficulty concentrating
Taking Abilify & supplements