I think maybe, Passionskyy, you may have been given prescriptions intended to be just for immediate relief, not for long-term use by the emergency psychiatrist.

You should not be taking medications that leave you feeling like a Zombie. The aim is to get you chemically stable (and you're right about holding on until your Lamictal is up to the proper dosage) and then you may need to make some changes in your diet to keep yourself at best nutritional levels.

These medications take their happy share of nutritional stores in being metabolized, so do all you can to keep your meds at a minimum level for effectiveness and watch your diet. (Keep things on the alkaline side than the acidic side for best feeling tone, please.)

See alkalinefoods.com or http://www.Acid-reactingfoods.com

Sometimes, when acidic levels of fluids and tissues get too burdensome, squeezing a couple of lemons into about 8 oz of water and drinking it reduces the acidic ash of meds. (All medications are digested leaving an acidic residue-or ash.) If you don't feel better in 4 hours, repeat the process. It works for some of us; it might be helpful for you, too.

Take care and discuss how you feel with the psychiatrist you'll be seeing in a few days.