wait. Are you even on a mood stabilizer yet? You add mood stabilizers and antipsychotics one at a time. If you add them both at the same time and something bad happens, then you don't know which one is the culprit.

Most pdocs start bp II patients on mood stabilizers because the *assumption* is that the bp II patients don't get psychosis and thus an antipsychotic MAY be overkill for treating symptoms. (Keyword: *may*. Some do have antidepressant properties, but so do some mood stabilizers like lamictal.). They like to try mood stabilizers first. Then when those fail, antipsychotics are used. But YMMV with pdocs.