After years of docs trying me on other meds that were all wrong or made me worse, I was put on tegretol 5 months ago. It was amazing. I was having mixed episodes. I had depression along with racing thoughts, agitation and anxiety. The Tegretol stopped all the manic symptoms, the suicidal ideation and seems to be helping with the depression. I just went up to 600mg and had a rought time with the doasge increase. It's amazing that one drug seems to handle all the symptoms.