This happened to me, and I'm okay now, but is now happening to my brother in a different city, different doctors, and I'm unable to help him, and he can't seem to help himself. Depression 'gallops' in my family. We have both done well on antidepressants for a lot of years. Last year he was told that he was bipolar or had bipolar depression and they keep trying him on different meds, none of which are helping him. He has been hospitalized twice. He has even been suicidal. When this happened to me, I went to a different doctor, and she immediately knew that I had unipolar depression, switched me to Effexor, weaned me off the bipolar meds, and within a few weeks I was back to normal and have been great ever since. My bro is miserable. Now they have him on Zyprexa, and I can't figure out how to get the message across to everyone that he is unipolar depressed, needs antidepressants, not antipsychotics or bipolar meds. I'm not sure what I'm asking here, I'm just frustrated.