Thank you all for your responses, I am very eager to get off of the Depakote to be frank, too much weight gain and drowsiness. My doc was going to start me on the 25mg (the lowest dosage I believe) and then move up to 50 or higher as I needed but my pharmacy only had the 100mg tablets but fortunately they can be cut in half so I can start out at 50 shouldnt be too high a dose to start off with I guess. I think Lamictal would be more suitable than the Depakote for me anyway to me it seems that I do deal more with depression than mania, and I have heard that Lamictal is better than Depakote for depression. As a matter of fact I only got put on the dreaded Depakote after I was hospitalized with mania and I wasn't snapping out of it. I do find that I only go into full blown mania when I deal with too many stressors at one time. Like my hospital psychiatrist told me, I snapped and went full blown manic and psychotic because I was dealing with work stress, uni stress, girlfriend stress, family stress, and eventually, he used the symbolism of a deck of cards, everything just collapsed when too many things went wrong at the same time, so I learnt from that one of my major triggers is stress itself, which I know sounds very generic because we all go through stress in our life and living with a condition as serious as bipolar doesnt really help lol.