My pdoc prescribes me a lot of medication (see below) because I tend to need a variety (mood stabilizers AND antipsychotics), but everyone is different. Latuda is an antipsychotic, so it should help prevent mania as well as depression. I've been taking Latuda several years now, and I tend to stay pretty stable. I still have some hypomania on and off, but nothing serious. I doubt my pdoc will ever find medications to make me completely "normal" (HAHA!).
I wouldn't worry about getting manic in the future. Just take it one day at a time, and see your pdoc as soon as you start to get too manic.
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...Out of night and alarm
Out of terrible dreams
Reach me your hand!
This is the meaning that we suffered in sleep:
The white peace of the waking.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Song of the Nations"~
Diagnoses: Bipolar 2, OCD, Chronic Worrywart 
Meds: Lithium (reducing), Trileptal, Latuda, Risperdal, Klonopin and Xanax PRN
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