Popular Drug Abilify Seriously Harms Your Impulse Control Center
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Abilify is an antipsychotic medication manufactured and marketed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Bristol Meyers Squibb. There are numerous lawsuits pending involving their antipsychotic medication Abilify that clearly show the drug can cause impulse issues in adults, such as chaotic gambling, shopping, binge eating and hypersexuality. America’s Lawyer Mike Papantonio discusses this.
When I was growing up I was told these drugs merely slow your reflex time in ways similar to alcohol and that they leave your system within 3-4 weeks. Years later after I already figured out how dangerous they were on my own despite what doctors had told me, I heard about all kinds of disturbing side effects like tremors, "brain zaps", and stroke and that they can take many years to clear from your system and the side effects could become permanent. Boy did I feel violated.
Did your sex drive return
Can’t believe my eyes. I was put on abilify 2 years ago and ever since I’ve been reckless. Even after going off of it. This makes so much sense. Disgusting.
Why do I feel this is a fake account and there are profiles of attractive women making positive statements to the video as fake accounts
Because you’re bored with your life.
I'm not tho, you're just a fake account
Terrible side effects, I felt like a zombie ... rapid weight gain. I trusted my doctor when he offered it as a solution. He wasn't a specialist in mental health.
Unfortunately a lot of doctors are paid to prescribe certain drugs, not knowing their side effects, not understanding how or why the work and not properly informing their patients of the risks.
I spent a year on Abilify and made a few interpersonal decisions on impulse that messed me up to this day. Things are only now getting better.
Jared Vincent I would like to hear more if you dont mind, I was on abilify too
@@erickt6244 did u get sex drive back ?
I stopped taking abilify after two weeks because I feel suicidal. Before that, I addict to sex and spending. Not good medicine.
$7 Billion a year in sales. Number 1 selling drug in America and the FDA says that the way Abilify works is "unknown".
Shit, I was on Abilify. I had to stop taking it when I burst into tears in the middle of a history class for no reason. It also made me very easily angered.
You can look up what drug companies are paying your psychiatrist, found that the company behind abilify was the top payer to my psychiatrist and just so happens he was prescribing me abilify
Is this real? What site shows that?
Pot , is the answer.
And the question is, how can I remain in my mom's basement until age 45?
Listenbuddy1 By continuing to get on TH-cam and comment stupid shit like you're doing now. Lmfao
Let's legalize all drugs and let people choose their own solution :D
Stephen Mystery I'm considering supporting that for pot but it's still not a great thing long term (chronic) unless you need it.
Bill Anderson Damn, Bill coming through with the truth. Preach.
America is a scary place.
I have a relative on Abilify. My opinion is that this drug has saved his life. When he is taking his medication he is normal again. As well as many people with his condition, he distrusts doctors and drugs, including this one. He could very well decide that this drug is to blame for many of the problems in his life and decide to sue the company. That wouldn't mean he'd be right. This video makes unsubstantiated claims and it is endangering the well being of people like my relative, already inclined to be suspicious on the medical care they receive, often with devastating consequences.
I get the impression this guy is an ambulance chaser. The symptoms they’re describing is the disease itself not the effects of the medication.
Abilify was a failure about 20 years ago. This is not news, and it's sad it's not well known.
Hmm... I'm on Abilify and I don't recall these symptoms. Then again, results may vary. Maybe I'm lucky?
Side effects aren't universal; that's why they're called side effects.
Me too. This medication saved my life.
I was given this by psychiatrists and my dad who was a doctor. They never told me why I was taking it (they had diagnosed me with schitzophrenia without telling me). I took this for several years. It was only years later that I realized what the medication was for. I confronted my psychologist and my family, asking them why they had not told me of the diagnosis. I was told that they didn't want me to stop taking the medication. Now I'm finding out all the risky side affects. What a terribly irresponsible situation combining the doctors, psychologists, psychiatrist, mental health counselors, pharmaceutical industry, and even my own family
David Schlessinger Wow.
i been taking it for years , im told that i cant stop takin it ? is that true ?
@@daytradingking1210 I stopped taking it years ago. I seem to be OK
why they put you on it @@davidschlessinger9945
Only ONE Abilify pill made me hear voices. It was very, very scary. In fact I was petrified, because it happened at night. What's it like to hear voices? It's like someone talking who's behind you or worse--like someone behind your shoulder, so close that you feel chills on your neck & your skin starts to crawl.
Since you stopped taking Abilify do you feel like you’re back to normal?
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Yep, all antipsychotic drugs have severe side effects. That's the reason why they are only given when you have the indication and under strict supervision for side effects.
Why in the USA it is allowed to advertise for these drugs is really puzzling!!!!!!!!!!
Abilify for tic disorders? That would be totally new to me, when it can cause restless legs, sleeplessness and agitation.
petrairene bs, these drugs are handled out like candy by GPs.
Well you probably shouldn't go to a gp for psychotic symptoms much like you shouldn't go to one for cancer surgery
I’ve been on abilify for over 20 years and i literally homeless now. Constantly having problems with spending
Omg that's horrible. It did me the same way. I was on it 3 separate times. It made me worse each time I took it and after I stopped for a while. I was extremely jittery the last time to where I couldn't sit still. Im also a recovering addict and in the past it always made me go out and use. I stopped taking all meds, I was told that I was never going to function like a normal human being and I have proved doctors wrong. It's hard to get out of that mindset that you need something. I don't know your story but don't believe everything you are told. Believe in yourself and Im not saying stop taking it, tapering would definitely not be a bad idea. The biggest thing that helped me was microdosing. I just want you to know that you're not alone and it might be a long road ahead but at one point I was completely hopeless and I know if I can do it, anyone can. It sucks that these doctors are never held accountable for what these medications and the swapping of them to something else causes us to do afterwards. They just prescribe everyone the same thing because that's what is trending from the pharmaceutical company. They have ruined people's minds by trying to suppress normal emotions but because none of us are taught how to deal with our emotions, our parents didn't have the self awareness of their own emotions to know how, they try to make it seem not normal for us to feel. They want us completely desensitized.
Abilify is also used to help anti depression medication. I suffer from severe depression and anxiety attacks. I started taking it last month and it has worked wonders for my mental health. I'm glad I have it because of the government's control over control substances. Yes, many people abuse, sell or become addictive to the control substances, but what about us, the people who regulated our scripts as told by our doctor and can't get our meds anymore? Abilify is an alternative. Sorry, but that's the way it is.
Yeah, sometimes TYT make some idiotic and ignorant reporting. My brother is autistic and Abilify essentially gives him the power of self-control, where he otherwise wouldn't have it. Medications are important, within context.
He is not saying that it does not work, but that one of the known side-effects is lack of impulse control and they have down played the side effects, especially when it is used for extended periods of time. And even more importantly, it is prescribed for people that do not actually need it - which makes the side effects a problem. I can testify to the fact, having worked in residential centers for about 8 years, that teenagers with "behavioral problems" are often medicated to help control their behavior, even though their problem is often not a chemical issue in their brains. However, the way the system is set up means that Medicaid will not pay for treatment unless a psychologist attaches a DSM-V to their file and so ALL of those kids come in with a "Oppositional Defiance Disorder" tag no matter the reason they arrived, which eventually gets modified to something else that Medicaid will pay for because we as a society have decided that we are not going to pay for behavioral modication or counseling in children unless we can justify forcing them to take a pill.
You are correct that psych meds are prescribed without enough care or consideration. You are also correct about the context of what he said in the video. I rewatched it and I retract my criticism of TYT in this case. It is still important to make sure to not vilify this medication and at least represent its actual usefulness so people won't just stop taking it when they might actually need it.
I agree 100%
Exactly. It takes 5 to 10 years for someone to be properly diagnosed. I've had my problems since I was 24. That's 30 years ago. Abilify has terrible side effects, granted, but when the meds. that people have taken for their mental and physical problems which are true, now is on the control substance list......I decided to try Ability. Hopefully no liver damage in the future.
That moment the devil's lettuce fixes those things safer than pills
jazz cigarettes for the win
Devil's lettuce won't fix primary psychotic disorders.
I was prescribed this medication in the past; terrible side effects.
Most antipsychotics are dopamine antagonists, at least at the D2 receptor. Abilify is a partial agonist, so it is more likely to cause this disinhibition, like the dopamine agonists used for Parkinson's do. There is some thought that Abilify might be better for negative symptoms, but I don't know if that has held up with the research. All drugs have side effects. There needs to be much better monitoring of patients on psychiatric medication, especially with initiation or after dose increases. I also think that no one other than a psychiatrist should be prescribing antipsychotics. But it is mostly primary care.
And unless they make them pay more than 7 billion in fines, they'll keep doing stuff like this.
still too low
to fully disincentivise such behavior corporate fuckery must be punished with a fine that would make the executives consider suicide
Sometimes you have to medicate TO REHABILITATE. But maybe not with abilify.
i took abilify and i couldn't stop laughing at things, and then i also blacked out and tried to choke someone, is that also considered impulse control center??
that has never happened to me until i took abilify.
I'd have to say YES. There is a DEFINITE lack of impulse control if your doing that.
The side effect is im freaking tired
Same
@@ethangellman4563nut does it work for you how long have you been on it?
@@lourdes1040 a year now, it works very well
@@ethangellman4563 yeah but there's a video going around talking about how abilify is a chemical lobotomy. I use to take it and it was horrible. I couldn't cry for 6 months. These doctors are unknowingly desensitizing you. That's what big pharma wants.
This story made me so depressed that I had to go and take my antidepressants...not that they made me feel any better. 🍻
I feel for the hard working private business owners that sell alternatives to big pharma. It's tough to compete against government subsidized drug dealers that have their own gang to enforce their arbitrary drug laws.
No matter what this dude said, all I heard was; "Praise Jesus. Send money. Hallelujah! "
DrJackJeckyl You must have been watching a televangelist by mistake.
All this drug did for me was knock me out. I tried it for several weeks but ultimately the side effects were not worth it.
How did it knock you out? That's not a side effect
This drug knocked me out of reality and in a dreamlike daze. I could literally close my eyes at any point during the day and go to sleep. In no way did it help. Ultimately my doctor and I decided to discontinue use and try another drug.
Did u regain your sex drive?
abilify doesn't do jackshit and its like 300 dollars a bottle.
+Ben Zzz It's dangerous af.I was always full of energy everyday and when i started taking abilify all i wanted was to sleep.
Hi all so I got told by my physiatrist that I need something different for my depression and anxiety/panic attacks as i've been on around 10 or 11 different 1s in different classes etc since I was 18 im now 44 , so he has said try this med, I asked him if it has sexual side effects he said no in fact it has been documented that it increases your libido, and it's great for depression, (apparently i'm not Bipolar?) and i know I don't have schizophrenia also he said it helps with anxiety, sleep and no weight gain, I've been reading up on this med and watching youtube and it's all conflicting some say their sex drive goes through the roof others say it kills it, the same for depression, anxiety, panic saying it's better than any antidepressant and anxiety meds, and others saying putting on weight is too much but for some it decreases their appetite then the same for sleep, I don't want insomnia or any of the crappy side effects, I read agitation too, but how can you be agitated if it relaxes you, really confused now, would love to hear rom people that are on it or have been on it, hopefully no scare stories, cheers in advance.
I'm on it and I lost weight and it does improve your sex drive lol
My husband is a shell of the man he was prior. No sexual function, ED, no desire anymore & mental, emotional intimacy is gone too. Used to be a sweet kind loving man...now mean and rude.
Please see a naturopathic doctor. This drug is a neurotoxin and shrinks your brain. It can be a compounding effect if you have certain other issues as well.
i have scitzoaffective disorder and all the antipsychotics cause serious apetite increase except for aripiprazole and haloperadol. I love aripiprazole, i feel way better in mood and have a better state of mind :-{)@@lora97006
I take Abilify and occasionally when I cringe at something or remember something embarrassing, I have weird ticks.
movement disorders are a well known side effect of the the dopamine deprivation caused by antipsychotics. i personally would not recommend an antipsychotic as adjunctive treatment for depression generally.
it certainly can that's why people develop EPS. antipsychotics, especially seroquel are WAY overprescribed
In my grade school the teachers used on us unruly kids drugs called the paddle, the rod, the switch
this was a very important piece of news. thank you for reporting
Abilify makes psychopaths even more impulsive and unable to control themselves....great!
MGTOW Psyche Uhh abilify isn't prescribed to psychopaths.
In some of their commercials there would be a creepy doll that looked like the person with depression. The person would smile at the doll, probably to keep it from wishing them into a cornfield or something.
WARNING DO NOT GIVE TO ELECTED OFFICIALS. Too late for that on the warning label huh?
I was put on abillify to help my anti depressant medication. It literally gave me nearly EVERY symptom of scitzophrenia. And my rls was made much worse. I had rls bad before antidepressants and it subsided for a while then it started up again. I'm now fighting to keep taking klonopin to fight the rls that abillify amplified in me. The klonopin helps my rls a lot and relaxes me if I have to travel by airplane/long car rides.
what if they were already impulsive before, i think they should check to make sure when people seem to have mental problems they turn something to ease the mental pain like drugs i think you need a more extensive study
It actually helped me feel better initially. Unfortunately, that was pretty short lived and if I forgot to take it I literally felt like I was dying. Once I noticed that, I stopped taking it; withdrawal was horrible.
However, I have ruined my life beyond redemption in a lot of ways; I never considered the drug have played a role in how I was acting until I’ve been seeing some videos pop up by Dr. Yosef. Since I have been off of antidepressants I finally feel more like myslef; I feel normal snd really ashamed & sickened of my past behaviors. I truly don’t recognize the impulsive zombie like creature I was on anti-depressants and it will forever haunt me for the rest of my life.
I had depression was crying a lot. Dr. Gave me abilify. I sat in the kitchen chair for 5 yrs. My mind was going crazy. I had almost every side effect. So bad shopping. I spent so much money. My living room is full of un open boxed. I mean filled. My craft room. Has every machine embroidery,cricut, computer. Etc. you can’t walk in it. More unopened boxes. I got to where I couldn’t walk. I was more depressed then I started out. However. I thought I was fine. I stopped cooking laundry you name it. I was driving my husband crazy for more sex. My legs are still hurting and my spine. My white blood cells are extremely high. I have to go again for blood work. Dr. Thinks I have lukemiea because of because of extremely high white blood cells and other things. Can abilify cause leukemia?
Its definitely the problem. Only until i was off medicine, all of it including abilify, was i ever successful. And I'm sure they did profit off of it. Each prescription was over a thousand that my* insurance saved me. It wasn't a best seller, just doctors were prescribing everyone that went to the doctor screwed up from taking other medications was prescribed it.
Everyone has been prescribed lamictal, prozaic, zyprexa, Seroquel, trazodone and now abilify.
They just want to numb your emotions because feeling too much is a bad thing, i think not feeling enough is. This world is cold.
I love Mike Papantonio. I wish he was my uncle.
Shit made me freak out
I wonder if the LasVegas shooter took this drug.
Nancy Mesek
It's funny you say that, They only check for illegal drugs.
He was on an anti-anxiety drug with similar side effects.
Perfect med for NJ.
Oh, but think of all the children it's helped!😭😭😭Now their parents will have to treat them like human beings!
Abilify is this generations Ritalin. (as in they hand it out like candy to everyone)
I'm shocked!! Not really... Psychiatry messed me up really bad. So much corruption....
I was put on Haldol for Tourettes and it knocked me out. I didn't feel right at all...
This is why I don't trust the psychiatric profession at all.
Never listen to a lawyer giving medical advice, what makes you think he's GETTING PAID OFF. BY CASHING IN BY BAD MOUTHING ABILIFY. It should be against the law for a lawyer to giving medical advice
i took it and it doesnt work at all, got a dog that work for me
1 out of 5?!?! Something is wrong here...
Where do I get some???
Yea but free market though.
Even a completely non-regulated economy can't stand by idly if drug manufacturers KNOWINGLY produce and conceal the effects their product could/would have. The Litany of side effects never mentioned impulse control issues so they are liable.
My doctor just put me on this shit too. Wtf. For "anxiety" no less. Btw it doesn't work for my anxiety.
Why suffer? Talk to your doctor today!
Love Pap!
This drug is 15 years old so it's probably cheaper than the newer more effective drugs.
you don't need a pill...you need a life change.
wiseass 5000 A life change doesnt treat Bi-Polar or Schizophrenia.
John Alex sure it does
alright I bite, what's this "life change" you speak of that treats primary psychotic disorders?
John Alex enlightenment
wiseass 5000 That's pretty vague
maybe that gunman had ablify alongside valium a lethal combination
Lock drump up
Gary Lock Gary up
zombify me ----never
Heath Ledger, Robin Williams and my cousin all took Ambien, a sleeping pill. All three committed suicide.
My cousin walked out of his house, in the wee hours of the morning, put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
Ambien puts you into a dream like state and you're capable of acting out in ways that you'd never do while awake.
Abilify*
or brushing your teeth till they bleed...
So does Xanax - it creates an effect where there is an inability to determine right from wrong -
Juliet Jowett xanax is booze in a pill though. 1 hour half life gaba receptor benzodiazepine. Xanax is the last line if not banned by most doctors for treating anxiety in this day and age.
Xilom82 thank you for your response - I've never studied pharmacology or brain function and only read sporadically for information - I'm particularly interested in the effect of cannabis on the prefrontal cortex in developing brains - particularly in the female population - but I did take Valium in high doses (40mg per day) from around 13 (15 mg per day then the greater value in my 20's - I'm 58) to around 36 - by prescription - the muscle relaxing component makes it a bit a different - I cannot and will not take Xanax - I see the comment below and my personal experience is that it interfered with my decision making process - Valium worked well for me - but it makes me more aggressive - and lord knows I don't need that - well hahaha people around me don't need that - age and some relaxation techniques have apparently helped - I take nothing now - that is best if possible - I am fortunate - others are not - there is a way to address these issues pharmaceutically and give relief - stress is - painful - I would describe it as my skin being too tight and ultimately end up with what I called hard bounced muscles in back neck - all over really - and next that would become migraines - frankly - I believe in my case it is internal energy and I have learned how to channel it -
Wow xilom82 I didn't know you could delete from here which you obviously did - after your passive aggressive response which clearly showed a tendency to make innuendo after I clearly stated that I take nothing - and further showed your limited knowledge on the overall issue of drug use and the effects on the brain - currently - the most important of which is cannabis since it does have proven immense negative consequences in adolescents who use ----
It certainly doesn't help me sleep.. my muscles were cramping all fukin night!
To everyone in the comments: thank you for talking about this. I was prescribed Zoloft and Ability 3 years ago for depression and suicidal ideations. I'm still here and doing well. I'm very glad i decided not to listen to these "medical experts" and turn to the healing power of Tibetan Buddhism instead.
Big Pharma = Substance Abuse
I used to take abilify
I shake like Michael j Fox now and I am a bit compulsive
That's because extrapyramidal symptoms are part of the known side-effects. Your physician should be able to modify your dosage or give you a different medication. Would you prefer your mental disorder consuming you instead?
CitizenofDystopia is a corporate abilify hack
CitizenofDystopia I was on it for 2 an a half years I've been off it for 5 and still shake
Try smoking pot Eo
A glass of cold milk along with a meatball sub cures all.
Pfft - Milk drinker.
Salazar Ravenclaw Only with some things, like meatball sub
Sub head
LAX2SanGabriel mmm me like sub
Listenbuddy1 dumbass comment, dumbass poster.
Tourette syndrome and autism are not a mental illness it's a neurological disease. Neurological illnesses are not the same as mental illness.
i may be paranoid or something but i think i was approached by an undercover nurse while i was in the psych ward who tried to flirt with me while i was on abilify, it happened hours after i flirted with another girl my age there, she wasn't even there, she came down sat next to me and in a way to avoid a lawsuit she asked me to put my leg on her lap, obviously a sexual advance in a non derogatory manner.
1-800-baddrug
Infuriating
Abilify really does this shit to you. Take it from someone who dealt with it firsthand, and was left with horrible anxiety in the aftermath.
Did it get rid of your psychotic symptoms? Have you tried smoking pot?
Shawn Ruby It made them worse. The anxiety is from knowing that helplessness and the extremes my own actions can take, constantly trying to control myself and not knowing why I think the way I did. Then, once all of the shit is gone, letting go of all of that effort for self control, is impossible.
Weed has been illegal in every state I've lived in(not saying no here), and I've moved a lot, so have no way to get a hold of it if I tried.
TYT didn't mention the video is a commercial for Levin Papantonio lawyers, but it is presented on their channel as proper news, which is unethical on their part to say the least.
...or free advertisement for their law firm.. which they linked to in the video. You said it yourself, "the video is a commercial". I cannot imagine the law firm wouldn't be grateful, and more than happy to let them use it.
If a drug company was doing something unethical, would you be happy a lawyer familiar with the issue was available?
Well.... shit....
TYT Science Guy...
It's a lawyer in a commercial, and I don't know of any he has to TYT. This is probably doubling as news and advertisement for the law firm.
idk man. I took that drug for a least a few months and that didnt happen to me. It's gotta be a rarer side effect. drugs work differently on all kinds of people, and unfortunately, drugs used for mental illnesses seem to be interchanged across different disorders all the time. I don't really get it. Abilify is marketed as an anti-depressant.
Abilify is classified and used as an antipsychotic. Even if you make the mistake with marketing to believe it's an antidepressant, your doctor knows it is not.
Thanks The Young Turks.:) Unusually exemplary?:D
lol, what bullshit.
MichaelF Yeah. Except that it's facts? You a Trump supporter? Ya fit the profile since you laugh at reality.
MichaelF which parts are bullshit?
I am the exact opposite of a Trump supporter. I hate the man. And I am on Abilify. So I think I am a little more informed on it's effects than you.
The part where they say it ruins your impulse control. I am sure for some a very low percentage that maybe it is pernicious but I am on this med and have no problems.
MichaelF Using it doesn't mean you're an expert: As you keep doing your best to prove here. The # of people who die on it also proves that usage doesn't equsl expertise. But you seem to equate supposition to knowledge so I'll let you proceed with that fail-approach to life.
A lot of drugs have serious side effects. Abilify is one of them. However, Abilify is appropriate for some individuals, especially people who are psychotic. I contend that this clip avoids that important fact, and this clip lacks an understanding of psychopharmacology, and science in general.
Rapacious Interloper Then I challenge you to start taking the same meds and see how you fair. Start with Cymbalta. Take it for three months and then stop suddenly; let's hear about your psychopharmacology imperical data then...
yes but it has more to do with the fact that all the side effects where not listed with this drug. which can mean all the difference. i just looked at some of them now. i took the drug when i was a teen, i was in foster care and i see one side effect that started with the drug that ended up making me have a lot of trouble because i was blamed, not helped , with that issues.
thewizishere The problem is the overprescription of this drug and pharmaceuticals in general. If you were not psychotic when you were given the drug, it was inappropriate, if not child abuse. Don't blame the drug. Blame the doctor.
Geoff Beyrent I am not psychotic so this drug would be detrimental. Just like I don't have cancer, so if I took cancer medications, it would be detrimental. Many of my psychotic patients have had major improvements in their daily functioning, because of Abilify. The problem is with overprescription, not the medication itself.
Did you even watch the video? He said that it has it's purpose but there is a risk, what part of that didn't get through to you?
Wow first 😮
6th
So tyt's staff use Abilify
This is a sneaky ad for a law firm. That 30 million from Soros must not be enough. (rolls eyes)
-Adjusts tinfoil hat-
Why is TYT putting out this spam???