After she researched the drugs on her own, in RxISK Johanna Ryan writes about her long, complex, creative and persistent efforts to avoid following psychiatrists’ pressures to take antipsychotics for her depression.
Dodging Abilify (RxISK, April 14, 2015)
Abilify Kills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VzMZX4nBz8
There own spokesman made that video after taking the stuff and getting sick.
Kudos to that man for making such an honest, succinct video. I especially like how at the end he says that people should ask their doctor if Abilify is wrong for them.
They prescribed that to me (my first question was: “why the hell are you giving me an anti-psychotic for depression?”) – fortunately I couldn’t take it because I was vomiting for the whole day after it.
Same here, they put me on it after my mom died. And i was like why an anti-psychotic. In the beginning it seemed like a miracle drug but after a month or so it had me sick.
I stopped taking Abilify 22 months before I told my shrink. The only reason I brought this fact to his attention was because they were going to start having me pay the $1400 per month for the drug which previously I had gotten from them for free. I told him that I would not be needing it since I stopped it 2 years earlier and he was shocked and asked why I didn’t say anything. I replied that I did complain many times to the previous doctor that I was unable to control my hunger and weight gain and that she would not give me the antidepressant that I begged her for. Since the Abilify made me so sick I couldn’t possible justify taking it. It just shows how clueless these people are that they cant tell the difference between someone taking the drug and not taking it. I would have been much better off stress wise it they had given me the $28,000 to pay my bills rather than giving it to a corrupt pharmaceutical company for a product I had to put in the trash. I have been neuroleptic free now for nine years.
