The scary side-effects usually only come in high doses that are used for schizophrenia (for example 30 mg) or when the medication is taken for many years. I'm doing a 6 week trial (without succes 
) with it at the moment and I do not really fear the permanent and dangerous side-effects, because the chances are so low. At 10 mg it had made me very restless, which made me reduce the dosage.
I was in specialized psychiatric clinic for schizophrenia for 3 months and many people there took antipsychotics for years or even decades without noteworthy problems. In this timeframe I only saw one single person who had tardive dyskinesia. It was an old man and the symptoms were fairly mild.
There is actually some anecdotal evidence of Abilify working for DP-symptoms. It works differently than every other antipsychotics, because it's an partial dopamine agonist and not a dopamine antagonist. But nobody knows whether it's really effective and how many benefit from it, so the risk-benefit-ratio is unknown.
) with it at the moment and I do not really fear the permanent and dangerous side-effects, because the chances are so low. At 10 mg it had made me very restless, which made me reduce the dosage.I was in specialized psychiatric clinic for schizophrenia for 3 months and many people there took antipsychotics for years or even decades without noteworthy problems. In this timeframe I only saw one single person who had tardive dyskinesia. It was an old man and the symptoms were fairly mild.
There is actually some anecdotal evidence of Abilify working for DP-symptoms. It works differently than every other antipsychotics, because it's an partial dopamine agonist and not a dopamine antagonist. But nobody knows whether it's really effective and how many benefit from it, so the risk-benefit-ratio is unknown.
