Mood stabilizers have never blunted my emotions. What they have done is stabilized my mood so I'm don't cycle in and out of episodes quite as often. I still have fun and joy and anger and whatever. It's the episodic nature of things that has leveled off a good deal for me. That's a good thing.

Take a look at the DSM4 criteria for bipolar 2 disorder. That is where the diagnosis comes from, not from how you react to mood stabilizers. That seems really backwards to me. If you want to try a mood stabilizer to see if it relieves some of your symptoms, that would be up to you obviously. They work on more than just bipolar symptoms for many people. Just be sure the diagnosis isn't just based on whether a med works or not.