I have used Lamictal in the past as an activating agent that helped with depression. It helped but I was taking other things so I can say precisely. I also have PTSD. Sorry to hear of your loss. Lamictal did not affect my anxiety which some of the meds do. It's not really a mood stabilizer in the sense of what might be needed for bipolar so from what I understand it is not effective for that use. I took it for vegetative depression as an augmenting agent and it did help. I tried it again recently but found other things to take, like Provigil and Wellbutrin that increased my energy without stirring anxiety. Then I removed other augmentations and stuck with that.