I'm voting with Christina. Also, if you worry about mania, see if your pdoc can prescribe an "emergency" med to take you down if you need it... this could be as simply as taking 50 mgs of Benadryl to make sure you sleep! Over the past 22 years of bipolar I, I've always had a "take-down" med available to me in case of mania and have found that this has been the best treatment regime overall.