Yo- my daughter hasn't had one hallucination since 3 days after starting Abilify. Now that Rocks!

As a long time Seroquel user, I am finding your information to be similar to the experiences I am currently having. After years of increasing my dose, I am maxed out and now the 800mg I take to sleep, is not working. I am so sick and tired of this game. I also think this time of the year sucks for all of us. Anyone else of that opinion? I would like to know how many of us suffering from any form of mental illness have a tough time in October/November?

That's great Celina. Keep in mind that it's the long term that truly counts--as essential as it is to knock down symptoms in the short term--and I hope to god Abilify works for her in the long term. Laos, keep an eye on agitation and such because Abilify is becoming well-known amongst docs and patients for winding people up.

And yeah, what the hell is it about October and November anyway? Anyone have any thoughts?

This post got past me, but yeah I have thoughts about October/November..bipolar cycles in the Fall and Spring with such predicatable timing, it can be planned for, (IE medication adjusting)and as far as that goes, it has been in my daughter's IEP w school since 6th grade. All the teachers always used to know that Fall/Spring were hard for her. Behaviors due to illness were then not frowned upon by school staff, and often a doc's note to the school helped that along.
This is so predictable, I had a "form" letter I emailed to the teachers in Sept telling them about the cycling, and as for myself: my pattern is always ending up on a front page of a newspaper or on TV with one of my "causes". I just looked at my framed papers, and one year it was Oct. 28 and another year it was Oct 31. For me I'm not a depressive Fall person, I am manic, thus my ability to move issues forward that time of year. Actually find it quite interesting.
This is the first year my mind went faster than I could keep up though, and had to dump a bucket of seroquel on it.