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Re: ABILIFY or CLOZAPINE (which is better?)

Posted by pretty_paints on January 13, 2005, at 14:01:58

In reply to Re: ABILIFY or CLOZAPINE (which is better?), posted by ed_uk on January 13, 2005, at 12:54:00

Hi Ed,

No of course you haven't!

I was wondering if you could explain something for me? As I said about in my other post, no-one really knows what my diagnosis is: psychotic depression or schizophrenia-type disorder. But that doesn't really matter so much.

The point is, the pdoc says that Clozapine is only prescribed for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, and since she doesn't know what I have yet, she's prescribing Abilify instead. I asked her why she couldn't prescribe it just for "general psychosis" like she prescribes the other AP's, but she didn't really see what I was saying. Do you have any ideas about this? Is Clozapine the only AP which is prescribed for a specific condition, instead of just general symptoms? Why, for example, can't the pdoc just refuse to give me the Abilify because I haven't been diagnosed with schizophrenia?

Thanks a lot for any advice!


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