yes, my doctor prescribed the depakote. i felt so close to him though when he understood my problem, he told me that his son has bipolar, and that it was hard for him to see it cuz he was so close to him. he understood how i have been pretending to be okay all this time cuz i didnt want to let the crazyness show. at that moment i trusted him completely. he prescibed only 500 mg a day, cuz of the side effects. why dont i trust him now, if he would prescribe this to his own son?! its funny too cuz when i told a friend today about the diagnonsense... sorry, diagnosis, he was like "ya, and?!" he said he already knew.... wtf?! i thought i was playing it off so well! guess it is hard to see the problem when the problem lies in your own mind.