Mental Health Coming Off Vraylar (cariprazine), Rexulti (brexpiprazole), or Abilify (aripiprazole)

Been seeing Vraylar on the commercials. Been wondering if this thread could take off. Anyway, my hope is - if it does - the supports remain objective as people strive for better mental wellness

A little more than 2 years and 1 month off. I feel remarkably better. the worst of my symptoms now is a hotness or sometimes warmth in my sacrum which used to occur when I was about a year or so off the drug. Logic of mine is, as of now, that since I experienced a similar warmness in my sacrum before the drug or withdrawal reached its apex that I'm soon to see bigger improvements soon.

The worst of my symptoms appear to be over.
 
Quite nearly there now. I can feel a fair bit of pressure built up somewhere between my lobe and chest that needs to drop. Once it does, I should begin circulating energy much more efficiently.

As I've said before, my main concern with this drug is that it disrupts the connection between the physical body and the energy body. Though my energy body is sometimes superimposed with my physical body, it is not all the time. and that is simply not acceptable. I'm a dancer. and a fighter. I need my energy body to perform at its best.
 
I've been having daily spasms in my right eye lid for 2 months now after stopping this garbage.

Quite nearly there now. I can feel a fair bit of pressure built up somewhere between my lobe and chest that needs to drop. Once it does, I should begin circulating energy much more efficiently.

As I've said before, my main concern with this drug is that it disrupts the connection between the physical body and the energy body. Though my energy body is sometimes superimposed with my physical body, it is not all the time. and that is simply not acceptable. I'm a dancer. and a fighter. I need my energy body to perform at its best.
Great way to explain vraylar. It "touched" my soul in a bad way. Felt like it disconnected me from it. I wonder what the long term consequences are gonna be from trying this crap.

I also feel like I've been having balance issues. And my depression has gotten to the extremes. Asked doctor for help & was tricked and got my hopes up.
 
I've been having daily spasms in my right eye lid for 2 months now after stopping this garbage.


Great way to explain vraylar. It "touched" my soul in a bad way. Felt like it disconnected me from it. I wonder what the long term consequences are gonna be from trying this crap.

I also feel like I've been having balance issues. And my depression has gotten to the extremes. Asked doctor for help & was tricked and got my hopes up.
That sounds familiar.

At multiple points, I started hearing voices on this crap. But it wasn't just random- out of the blue - no. It was always at a time where I was in a lot of physical pain or my environment wasn't favorable or conducive to my mental and physical health. Strange that I would even start to hear this "voice" just before I would get a rush of pain too.

Fortunately my network of help has been fairly sympathetic and empathetic after explaining this stuff in ways they could understand. But it wasn't easy, lmao.

I hope your time coming off is easier than mine was.
 
About 2 years and 2 months off; the pressure I mentioned is down about halfway down. Life is generally easier now that most of the pains are gone.

Lately I'm feeling various "layers" peeling off of me. This happened while coming off Invega Sustenna too. I feel like I am nearer to my authentic self.
 
That sounds familiar.

At multiple points, I started hearing voices on this crap. But it wasn't just random- out of the blue - no. It was always at a time where I was in a lot of physical pain or my environment wasn't favorable or conducive to my mental and physical health. Strange that I would even start to hear this "voice" just before I would get a rush of pain too.

Fortunately my network of help has been fairly sympathetic and empathetic after explaining this stuff in ways they could understand. But it wasn't easy, lmao.

I hope your time coming off is easier than mine was.
Thanks friend!

I was only on it for maybe a few days (weeks if you count it's metabolite) and even in just the short amount of time, I felt how vile this drug really is.

Not sure why it was even given to me, considering I'm not "psychotic". I can't see feeling out of touch with your own soul being good for some one with major depression.

My doctor is a quack, probably got to go a nice vacation for pushing that filth on me & potentially injuring me permanently.
And then the bitch had the nerve to trick me when I told her a stimulant would help my depression.

I wish finding a new doctor who knows my history was much easier.
 
Finally sleeping better, and can tolerate caffeine.

Though my thoughts can flow much better now, it would appear the case is not the same for whatever I'm feeling. I have a suspicion that Vraylar effects parts of the brain that are associated with negative emotions, making it rather impacting to even so much as think something negative. It doesn't particularly seem to matter if the though is generated consciously or abruptly comes from the unconscious. Thinking in this manner has been a big catch 22 for me. Apparently the only way to manage negative symptoms on this medication is to meditate, but I doubt anyone has that kind of tenacity to meditate on a drug that lasts for this long, for that long.
 
I've made it.

Though there are still pains I am currently dealing with from having been on Vraylar and coming off and whatnot, I suspect these pains are more to do with latent energies circulating normal once again, but as near as I can tell - the efficacy of Vraylar no longer has a hold on me. I am finally free to live my life once again. :buddies:
 
I've made it.

Though there are still pains I am currently dealing with from having been on Vraylar and coming off and whatnot, I suspect these pains are more to do with latent energies circulating normal once again, but as near as I can tell - the efficacy of Vraylar no longer has a hold on me. I am finally free to live my life once again. :buddies:
I have to recant my former statement.

A wave came out of nowhere and some of the side effects now are worse than they've ever been... however, I've found a way to manage them using coping skills that are designed to train the corpus callosum.

Edit: I was hearing "the voice" again, its intensity was worse than I had ever experienced it.

I have a suspicion Vraylar disables the corpus callosum
 
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As far as I can sense and feel I currently have three blockages left (from Vraylar) existing - equidistant - along my pingala nadi/meridian.

I have removed the majority of these blockages doing basic energy work, but what I've found - and I think I've previously stated - is that blockages existing in the meridians caused by vraylar seem to move the body's energy currents away from their natural direction. Author of the Shaman's Body, Arnold Mindell expressed in his book that body energies - also called subtle energies - are supposed to move a certain way. Specifically, he said this: "Always move your energies with their natural flow" to paraphrase, that is. Suffice to say that for some inexplicable reason, vraylar (more explicitly - the blockages caused by vraylar) move energy in the opposite direction of where it's intended to go.

Over the course of more than a year these blockages built up and almost led to me boiling alive (see my post in the suicide thread for details). Over the following year, it was one day when I noticed - while working on my energy as I always am - that suddenly there was a distinct feeling that something had "let go" and was no longer fighting the energy currents I was sending in the proper direction. The first instance was curious and I mostly just ignored it, thinking I was going to be okay. What ended up happening later was by the time I had removed 4-6 blockages along my Ida meridian, so many blockages had built up in my Pingala nadi that - after a point that most of the blockages in my ida meridian had been removed - two boiling hot bubbles flowed up my pingala meridian and entered my brain. There are no nerves in the brain, so I didn't feel much. I still don't know if I have brain damage. But it was after this point that Vraylar (having been in my system for that long) took a major turn and periodically over the next year, I was dramatically heating up internally to a point that I could no longer ignore it.

This medication is by no means safe. Coming off this medication is dangerous.

Furthermore, when one of these blockages is about to give, there is an immense buildup of pressure in my back that is not exactly painful, but extremely uncomfortable.
 
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during a walk I managed to knock out all three blockages. It was no surprise that I got them out so quickly, considering the majority were already cleared.

What I can tell you with certainty (whoever sees this that is) is this: I am recovered - but only in the respect that I am 100% certain Vraylar is so far out of my system that it can no longer cause irreparable damage. However...

Upon inspecting my third eye I realized most of the damage is already done. My energy body is so warped, twisted and contorted that I am looking at the possibility that I may have to spend several years healing the damage it caused (whether through Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Yoga or some form of spiritual practice).

It's so fucked! I literally feel like I am inside my brain as I type this, sitting down in my right hemisphere! WTF are these drugs made of?!

I cannot express how angry I am, but I am going to work on that and hope it passes.

As for the obvious question, I have decided not to post anymore updates here because it's kind of just a nuissance for people to sift through. I will remain on standby as long as I am still using bluelight to periodically check this thread.
 
I have decided not to post anymore updates here because it's kind of just a nuissance for people to sift through. I will remain on standby as long as I am still using bluelight to periodically check this thread.
It's actually no nuisance at all! Please feel free to post in here, update us with your progress, etc. Consider this your thread.
 
It's actually no nuisance at all! Please feel free to post in here, update us with your progress, etc. Consider this your thread.
Thank you.

It's just, at this point, I feel so many mixed emotions about what I've gone through and am very pissed at Big Pharma. I also feel like I was betrayed by my doctor who gave me a choice between this med and the one I'm currently on. Talking with people about this, it seems to be the general consensus that these things don't come with enough warning labels.

But if you're saying I can use this thread as some kind of journal, then I appreciate the sentiment. :love:
 
Upon waking, once again, I found my energy moving in ways that are not conducive.

Struggling through the pressures of what I had not realized yet was another blockage, I managed to contort and twist my subtle energies to the point of releasing (again, with that very noticeable "giving sensation") another blockage and as per habit or something - in my astonishment or what I do not know - continued to move my energy in the same movements and patterns only to find that whatever was obstructing the flow was definitely gone. Perhaps a double check. Perhaps habit. I cannot yet be sure.

Perhaps I overlooked the problem since yesterday afternoon, for I was sure I sensed many errors that I was yet to fix and yet somehow had ignored them and as a result was astonished to find that - yes - there were several more blockages impeding my progress in healing. As far as I can tell now, which then could not, the majority of these remaining obstructions that I can now feel seem to be rather 'minor' and have thus begun to refer to them as such.

In the case of energetically working with the current so called "minor" obstructions, I have noticed that the natural flow of my energy is only impeded somewhat in working with these "nodes" of blocked energy. That isn't to say that there is no resistance in the positive flow of my traveling subtle energies. What seems to be the case in working with or against (depending on who you are reading this): the most notable difference in such is that these minor blockages seem to merely "slow" [my] flow of the energy, rather than twist in the opposite direction.

In a way, it is a relief to be working with more manageable obstructions, but the sensations I'm getting are just as bad.

As can probably be assumed, however, as I go through these one by one, my educated guess is that the physical or psychic sensations will eventually not be as impacting. Because of these bizarre sensations, I have not been able to drive to some of my appointments.
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In other news, I have seen Vraylar advertised on the television and can't help but wonder if they're pushing this one onto people due to a high supply and small demand. Seems like a conspiracy, perhaps, but if you think like a major conglomerate, it's not hard to see the correlation or trend.

Also, here's an Easter Egg for you: the psychiatrist that prescribed Vraylar to me had samples of this med in her cabinet. I actually still had a few until I remembered them and promptly disposed of them.
 
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I managed to remove all of the minor blockages, that I identified after releasing the major ones.

It seems something still impedes my progress, but as it stands I remain firm in the belief that Vraylar is 100% eliminated. Whatever road blocks I'm hitting now are more than likely a result of other unrelated toxins clearing from my body as well.
 
As near as I can tell, all blockages have been dealt with! The next step is to balance my body's internal pressure.

This, I have been doing through the art of fasting to cure an ailment I have dealt with for a number of years; As a result of fasting for five or six days I have recently dispelling mucus from my system that has built up from toxins stored in my digestive tract. Disgusting, obviously, and yet it is a very normal process in curing an ailment through fasts.
 
But if you're saying I can use this thread as some kind of journal, then I appreciate the sentiment. :love:
Yep that is precisely what I'm saying :)
In fact, I can even move it to our Blogs subforum if you want? Or I am more than happy to leave it here in the Mental Health forum, it's entirely up to you. I think either would be fine. Let me know if you want me to move it.
 
I actually felt phenomenal this morning... until another wave hit me. I started to recognize instantly, the differences, in how I felt just before the wave hit me and after it did. The feelings that came over me were a feeling of dread, a feeling of some dark force that exists somewhere in the world which seeks to do me harm (paranoia) and generalized anxiety.

I don't know what to say for this, because I'm usually not paranoid or having an existential crisis, but the feeling that came over me was paired by something else;

The terrible sensations came back as well. Fortunately my body is now at the point of recognizing this when it happens. As for turning the energy, that's another story... however; One crucial thing I did notice, this time, with the energy turning opposite it's natural movement is that it seems different this time. Like I said, my body is more attune to it. I'm not a scientist but it almost seems like my defenses are finally fighting off the remainder of this drug like a virus because, while I'm usually using my mind to make the energy move normally, it appears that my body is helping in this process.

They say communication between the body's intelligence and the mind's intelligence is key. This is one majorly good sign I have observed so far.
 
Anyone here that know how to accelerate the detoxification of this drug ? Thanks.
By the way i started to take St. John's Wort. Hope there are other things too
 
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