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Originally Posted by lolls1994
have been trying anti depressants as my psychiatrist told me it would be better to try other options before committing to lithium or mood stabilisers
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Yeah, like everyone else, I'm gonna say this is a little off. Although I'd note that my prior pdoc tried the same thing - jacked up my AD dose to the max to see if that would do it before trying mood stabilizers. I was OK for awhile (since I was more-or-less stable mood-wise at the time) but ultimately did not help much at all.
I can't begin to say what an improvement mood stabilizers (Lamictal) have been for me. It's a pain getting meds adjusted, but it really can make a difference, in ways that I had never imagined. As I told my pdoc last time, I literally did not realize that it was possible to wake up and immediately feel alert, and not take 3 hours to wake up to full operational status, because I can't remember
ever having that except maybe when I was a little kid!
So you might want to give mood stabilizers a try - it's not a commitment, really, because you can always stop them and try something else.