I started 15mg around two weeks ago I think, and I noticed I started having a lot of extreme impulses to drink, gamble, have sex, take illicit drugs, use PRN medication for recreational reasons, and found it much harder not to lose my temper due to small inconveniences. Nothing major happened that I can't recover from when I was on the higher dose but I did definitely do a lot of uncharacteristic things and damaged a lot of  relationships maybe irreparably. I'm not entirely sure where all of this was coming from, I've had mania from TMS before and that was somewhat similar but not nearly as severe and with the effect from Abilify I have no idea where this was all coming from. I've tapered down to 2.5mg and I think it might be helping with motivation and depression but I'm not sure, I don't think it's doing anything for psychosis.

The only side effects I have no are just a mild hand tremor but I ever since being on clozapine I've had that even after stopping clozapine and then being on no antipsychotics, and I think it might have some sort of sexual side effect but I'm starting to think that's just the absence of not having low libido from antipsychotics and antidepressants. Is it possible that I could slowly increase the dose and maybe the side effects I had were from suddenly being on 15mg from nothing? Or would it just not be worth it? I'm not particularly keen on changing medication because this is the one medication that at least doesn't make me emotionally numb. Has anyone had this but managed it? Thanks.