{"id":257,"date":"2008-07-06T00:28:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T00:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/07\/06\/bipolar-disorder-and-abilify\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:02:15","slug":"newsletter-bipolar-disorder-and-the-anti-psychotic-abilify-aripiprazole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/newsletter-bipolar-disorder-and-the-anti-psychotic-abilify-aripiprazole\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter: Bipolar Disorder and the Anti Psychotic Abilify (Aripiprazole)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You may have noticed that many people with bipolar disorder take Abilify.<\/p>\n

Abilify is an antipsychotic medication- also known as a neuroleptic. It is used for treating psychosis and mania.<\/p>\n

The generic name is Aripiprazole.<\/p>\n

It’s a newer antipsychotic, so it’s called an atypical anti psychotic. It, along with the other atypicals such as Risperdal,\u00a0Seroquel\u00a0and Zyprexa has less side effects than the older drugs such as Thorazine and Haldol.\u00a0 Interestingly, research has shown that the newer anti psychotics are not more effective than the old drugs. They just have a lot less side effects.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t mean they don’t have major side effects. They still do, but they’re easier to tolerate for many people.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0plus of Abilify is that it doesn’t seem to have as many weight gain problems associated with drugs such as Zyprexa, Seroquel\u00a0and Risperdal.\u00a0 That is a plus.\u00a0 On the down side, Abilify can be extremely sedating for some (ME!) or very agitating for others (my friend Sherri).\u00a0 But…. research always comes out at first that can be disputed later. The Abilify and weight gain issue is still under scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Abilify can help with mania and suicidal thoughts and is now being advertised as a booster medication for anti depressants.\u00a0 It comes in pill and liquid form.<\/p>\n

Many people with bipolar disorder take anti psychotics. They just aren’t talked about as much as the mood stabilizers.<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

PS:\u00a0 I simply can’t imagine how much money Bristol Meyers Squibb\u00a0 (also called Otsuka Pharmaseuticals) is making off of Abilify. There seems to be an Abilify commercial every few minutes these days. The commercials talk about Abilify as a medication for depressioin- and yet they never mention that it’s an anit psychotic.\u00a0 I think they should have to.<\/p>\n

I wish customers could get a cut of their profits. That would be nice wouldn’t it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You may have noticed that many people with bipolar disorder take Abilify.<\/p>\n

Abilify is an antipsychotic medication- also known as a neuroleptic. It is used for treating psychosis and mania.<\/p>\n

The generic name is Aripiprazole.<\/p>\n

It’s a newer antipsychotic, so it’s called an atypical anti psychotic. It, along with the other atypicals such as Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa has less side effects than the older drugs such as Thorazine and Haldol. Interestingly, research has shown that the newer anti psychotics are not more effective than the old drugs. They just have a lot less side effects.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t mean they don’t have major side effects. They still do, but they’re easier to tolerate for many people.<\/p>\n

A plus of Abilify is that it doesn’t seem to have as many weight gain problems associated [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12250,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/12250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}