I find my meds to be life-saving, including sodium divalproex (we call it Epival here, so it might be best to continue using the generic name.) I am continually tweaking my meds though. For me the hardest part with meds is when they stop working or don't work as well, I stop taking them rather than call my pdoc for adjustments.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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