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May 20, 2013, 09:25 AM
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Member Since: May 2013
Posts: 2
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Hello. I am a 27 year old male who had really bad sleeping issues about a year and a half ago or so. I wasn’t sleeping for about a month straight which didn’t bother me at first but after a while, I started to feel as if my body was crapping out. So I went for a sleep study, from there, my work made me see a psychologist. After speaking to the psychologist for a while, she helped me see a psychiatrist. I never asked for a diagnosis but im sure they think im depressed. The psychologist has said that I have bad depression but really high ups and really low lows.
The psychiatrist put me on an anti depressant called viibryd. I instantly felt great on it although she said it would take a couple of months to really take effect. I wasn’t feeling depressed and sleeping all of the time, I was doing stuff around the house and my wife was really pleased(and so am i). after 2 weeks of being on viibryd, she put on me lamotrigine(lamictal).. to my understanding, this is a mood stabilizer given to people with bipolar, correct? I have looked online and seen people get it for depression but also read that this isn’t a med proven to help with depression..
Anyways, since being on it, I don’t feel any different. I still feel like im going pretty fast in my head and I want to do everything but I also feel like I cant even focus at work. I look at my computer screen and I just cant focus even though im no longer depressed. This mood stabilizer isn’t working I don’t think to make me mellow out, can someone tell me why? Why am I even prescribed this if im not bipolar? If I am bipolar, why hasn’t this made me calm down? Is the viibryd making me feel so anxious, hyper and irritated or is it the lamotrigine now( I felt irritated, anxious and hyper while on viibryd but don’t know if it has gotten worse since on the lamotrigine). I constantly feel like I have all this energy that wants to explode out of me, I don’t know how to explain it.
If lamictal is to calm down moods I just don’t understand why this hasn’t made me mellow out. I feel good and all, anything is better then being depressed but I also feel like I need to kind of calm down at the same time. Know what I mean?
Sorry for the poor grammar and everything, I typed this really fast since im at work. 
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