Sure, I'll give ya the rundown...
It was prescribed to me as I was slipping into a depression. They have to start you off low and gradually increase it over time to the therapeutic level because of certain side effects of that particular medication. Over the next several weeks as I was building up to that therapeutic level, I kept slipping farther and farther into the depression as well as experiencing high anxiety and panic attacks. I was suicidal. Finally I reached that therapeutic level and after a couple weeks of that, I snapped, literally in one moment, and abruptly began spiraling into a hypomanic episode. This episode consisted of me leaving my husband and children, drinking, abusing drugs, cheating on my husband, not sleeping, spending all my money foolishly, extreme impulsivity if you couldn't tell already, I was on top of the world and I was the best at everything. I had no care in the world and I KNEW I was doing the right thing. I had multiple projects and big plans. I stopped believing that I had bipolar and discontinued my medications abruptly so that could have made my episode worse than what it would have been if I kept taking them. I damn near ruined my whole life and everything in it. It was as hypo as you can get. I was also only on Lamictal at the time and was prescribed seroquel as needed but I hardly ever took that.