I'm in the no-more-antidepressants camp now because the withdrawal is so hard. I don't know if it contributed to the frequent manic episodes I've been experiencing, but now that I'm off them entirely I don't want to go back. My pdoc said not to rule it out, though, because my depressions are pretty bad.....a baby dose might be necessary again at some point in the future.

Usually he increases the Lamictal (and just did it again), but I'm getting up there on the dosage so an AD may be the only option at some point in the future. Besides, as he said, the cocktail which kept me on a fairly even keel for a while included the AD, and he only stopped it because I was bordering on psychosis this time (hallucinating, paranoid etc.). So who knows......never say never, right?