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Originally Posted by spikes
How severe and frequent are your manic/hypomanic episodes? Sometimes an antidepressant can be used for anxiety and that might help, but there is a risk of causing mania. Antipsychotics like zyprexa are pretty good at mitigating that risk though.
Like others have said, Seroquel is pretty good for anxiety too.
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Not very severe right now. I'm on zyprexa already, I'm on viibryd for my antidepressant. I'm also on invega, so adding a new antipsychotic isnt practical. I could see about switching to seroquel but I've gained a lot of weight already on these meds...I'll talk to my psychiatrist...