Can the mood stabilizer Abilify cause an increase in depression and psychosis?

Question

What have you heard about abilify? Or what do you know from personal experience?

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Unfortunately that is a side effect of some mood stabilizers

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I was out on Abilify at only 11 years old, and I took it for 3 years. At age 14 I decided to stop taking my medications because me and my family agreed that they were helping, and all it made me feel was depressed, hungry, and just as angry as I was before. By the time I was 14 I had been institutionalized 3x, 2x for anger and 1x for depression and I didn't have depression until I started taking Abilify. From age 14-15 I was still extremely angry, violent, and depressed. I had even tried committing suicide once. But when I was 15 I was taken advantage by a man/family friend in his 30's and his family and my family were calling me a home wrecker and a whore....so I slit my arm from my wrist to my elbow. I was committed once more and then was diagnosed with Manic Depression. All in all I have Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depression, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, ADD, & ODD. I am now almost 21 and I have still been medication free since I was 14 and I have finally had no serious issues for the last 5 years ❤ It was VERY rough sometimes, but I wanted to be able to cope and live a normal life WITHOUT the need for medications, because every medication they had me try either didn't work, worked too well and made me zombie that slept 24/7, and made me so hungry that I literally gained 100 pounds in about 3 months when I was 11, but that was from the medication Depacote, not Abilify. I hoped this helped a little bit! 😁❤ Oh! BTW I went on to graduate high school with honors, did a year in college but I dropped out to move back home and help support my family and start a family with boyfriend, and now I'm married and I have a 10 year old stepdaughter ❤❤ Everyone has rough patches, some more rough than others, but eventually we all get through it ❤❤

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If you look up the drug on Medscape, it can give you all the info you need

Can the mood stabilizer Abilify cause an increase in depression and psychosis?

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