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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
why make new drugs when you can off label APs?
which work like some eastern european medicines (still sick, but so high you don't care... or on case of APs, zonked out enough not to get in trouble... and hard to get in trouble when you sleep 15 hours a day and spend the rest eating everything that doesn't ran away or is not locked).
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I'm on an AAP (Zyprexa) for my bipolar and don't feel like this at all. I still sleep 7 hours a night and am no hungrier than usual. I'm just less depressed and moody.
From my own research and talking to my doctor, I gather no one knows exactly why and how Lithium or Depakote work to stabilize moods, which is probably why it's so hard for them to develop new mood stabilizers. Though Lamictal is new-ish and helps a lot of people.