Yes, poor sleep is very detrimental for me as well. Unfortunately it's more of the rule than the exception lately. I have benzos for sleep but I try not to use them too much.

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Originally Posted by BethRags Before Lamictal I, too, wondered what the catch was. In fact, I doubted it when people praised Lamictal as being amazing. I was in a bad place when I started taking it...up, mixed, and that very specific crazy anxiety that is part of a dysphoric mania. I had zero faith in Lamictal, but my pdoc kept insisting, then my therapist met with my pdoc and I and they both insisted. So Lamictal it was. It took awhile. It really did. I was at 250mg when I finally began to feel some centering, some stability. But it was a couple of weeks at 300mg when I finally thought yeah, this actually is helping me. Maybe the "catch" with Lamictal is the time it takes to kick in I have never experienced Lamictal as activating, nor as sedating, but that's me. If you get enough sleep and still feel off tomorrow, will you contact your psychiatrist?

I took 2mg Lorazepam last night, and together with the Seroquel that knocked me out pretty good. I got enough sleep on paper but I don't feel rested. Yesterday it was starting to feel almost like hypomania mixed with the depression, but today that's not the case, at least so far. Mostly the anxiety remains. If it happens again I will try to contact my Pdoc, although he is on vacation for about 3 more weeks, and so is my therapist.