No, I'm not yet on a mood stabilizer. The last time I saw the meds person (different than my therapist) we were still exploring the issue of bipolar but I couldn't point to any manic episodes. Just some hypomania moments of creativity and insomnia. Now the manic episodes have been uncovered in therapy, but I don't see the meds person for another 2 weeks. I feel uncomfortable in my own skin on Effexor. I take Wellbutrin and Effexor in the am for energy and Seroquel at night so I can sleep.

Thanks for your thoughts as a veteran as it were. I imagined bipolar people to be like...I don't know, but not like me. Now I feel bad for having such a distorted view of them...of us. They're just normal people with chemistry issues just trying to lead a normal life. I feel like such an a--hole because I saw one bipolar person once who was a meth addict, didn't even really know him and my entire view was extrapolated from him. Boy was I wrong. I'm a writer (novelist, short stories, and poetry), a painter, a sculpter, and I do computer work to pay the bills. I knew creative people were emotional, but I'm totally surprised by this.