So, I started taking 20mg of paroxetine hcl in december, but apparently it was making me hypomaniac, so my psychiatrist prescribed lamotrigine as a mood stabilizer (25mg every 12hs) and lowered my paroxetine to 10mg.

The thing is, I started feeling a lot more depressed. Has anyone ever experienced this with this medication or other mood stabilizers?

Also I'm on lamotrigine for a month now and ran off of the pills on tuesday, so I'm on my 5th day without taking it. I had "productive insomnia" yesterday and the day before it and I'm feeling slightly "up", I feel happy and my emotional responses are not as inflammable as they usually are. Is this some sort of weird effect bc of withdraw? I never thought withdraw would feel nice. Not even intrusive thoughts are able to let me down today, they just come and go.

I know it was such a low dosage, but this was definitely weird. And tbh, it didn't do much for my mood swings, anger ou explosive mood, so I'm hoping my doctor will prescribe a new med when I see him this week.