that's how I felt after I started taking Seroquel... "happy". It was such a profound change, it was just amazing!

After about six or eight months I'm not so happy as I was, but not depressed most of the time. Seroquel has been approved for both bipolar depression and mania, so it is truly a mood stabilizer. (Most of the other anti-psychotics and anti-convulsants have been "approved" by the FDA, buy pdocs use 'em anyway).

Lots of doctors won't give a specific diagnosis... it can be a really "squishy" thing to get hold of, so they'll say stuff like "mood disorder". Look at it this way, you've basically got two mood disorders, depression and bipolar, and most bipolars are depressed most of the time. The same drugs are used to treat both, so they don't like to be pinned down. BP can be very hard to DX.

DJ

PS... I'm glad you're feeling better, Halliebeth. Take advantage of it!