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For What Are Vanlafaxine And Abilify Prescribed?

venlafaxine and abilify, do they have the same or similar effects used to treat sychoaffective disorder?I ve ben diagnosed with sychoaffective disorder, prescribed abilify and venlafaxine, seeing a new doctor and he ask me to choose one, abilify or venlafaxine, said they treated they treated the same symptoms. is this correct

posted on Tue, 31 Jan 2017

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Wed, 15 Feb 2017 Answered on

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General & Family Physician, Dr. Vikas Prabhav's Response

Greetings.

Abilify is a second generation antipsychotic, and venlafxine a dual action antidepressant. If you have depressive symptoms currently, venlafaxine might help you. If you have manic symptoms aripiprazole can help. However the first line in the management of schizoaffective disorder is the use of mood stabilizers. Please ask your physician about the same.

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