Just because Lamictal was working doesn't mean you have bipolar  Lamotrigine is commonly prescribed (off label) for PTSD. It is not even completely a bipolar medicine, it was developed for epileptic seizures. My Pdoc wants me on a mood stabilizer but I think I'm happier being unstable than stabilized on any hardcore drugs like that. A preliminary study of lamotrigine for the t... [Biol Psychiatry. 1999] - PubMed - NCBI this study says that 50% of patients with PTSD responded to Lamotrigine and that it would be a good "add on" for antidepressant pharmacotherapy. In psychiatry if it works better than placebo it gets used off-label.
They still don't have any PTSD specific drugs unfortunately  scientists need to get working on it  I read somewhere that scientists in Israel are working on it.
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