Is it possible..........I just started on this med last Friday, and already I feel like maybe---just maybe---I'm going to pull out of this 3-months-long mixed episode someday.

I'm sure it doesn't hurt that my worry over my sister's surgery and slow recuperation is going away (she's doing well now), or that my son and I are not fighting. But I've noticed a slight but definite improvement in my ability to concentrate at work---I'm not quite as scattered, and today I've actually accomplished something. I've also slept better the past 2 nights than I have in months.

Seems like it's a little soon for a small dose of anything to have any effect, but for the first time in what feels like forever, I'm thinking that maybe this long nightmare does have an end and that one day I'll be "normal" again.....whatever that is.