I agree with the other posters. I don't take the same mood stabilizer, but I have the same opinion about mine on occasion. I've been on Topamax for about 10 years, (before that, Depakote), and every time I feel like my dose isn't high enough or it's not working and I should stop taking it, I think about what my life was like before. I was only diagnosed when I was 31 (I'm 43 now), and spent most of my life thinking I was just crazy. I couldn't focus on anything, never finished anything I started, got angry at everything. Now, if I mention not taking it, my son threatens to go live in my car! So it does work, I just don't feel it. But I would miss it f it weren't there.