Sorry to hear, this post is for you and others below as well. It seems like there is some confusion regarding mood stabilizing agents. Although Latuda isn't an anti-convulsant, it is still has mood stabilizing effects like all the AAPs do, and they stabilize the daily mood quite well. Anti-convulsants keep the mania and depressive episodes from occurring closely together. Thus, to prevent as many bipolar episodes an anti-convulsant like Lamictal is needed, and to treat daily mood swings, an AAP, like Latuda is necessary. Just research it or ask any pdoc to verify it about effective medications for the bipolar spectrum. For dysphoric or even euphoric mania, Latuda worked great for me, then unfortunately it pooped out. It just took awhile to work. Best of luck!