[room101]

I just started taking depakote for helping with anger management. Does anyone here have experience with this. I haven't found much on its effectiveness for anger on the internet. thanks.

[kalisha36]

Originally Posted by room101

I just started taking depakote for helping with anger management. Does anyone here have experience with this. I haven't found much on its effectiveness for anger on the internet. thanks.

Hi,

I too take depakote among many other things However I do not notice it helping with my anger issues! I am in therapy which I believe is the best avenue for helping learn techniques and really for getting to the root of the problem that causes the behaviors to become so predominant that we act on them. Also on know DBT is huge to in learning how to deal with those issues. However I am NOT a fan, as I have went thru it and had a bad experience, however slowly working thru a T that I trust will prove valuable at some point I know.....

Take care,
Kalisha

[krisakira]

depakote made me feel like an old lady (im 22) and i had a horrible time waking up in the mornings (which was bad cause i was in college at the time and had morning classes, and often missed them) once i was off the stuff i felt more like me again

[kalisha36]

I am just wondering if most people take depakote in the morning? Umm I had a pdoc I didn't like however he did tell me the trick about depakote that I did take it at night right before bed... Had no issues about getting up, and I am 36 three kids and have a busy life...Not too say I don't have down day's I do most certainly I do, however when I took it during the day I did notice that I was definitely more sleepy...This is just my experience everyone is different. I never had weight gain either. Of course if you take it at night your asleep too so your not eating during the day However I was on it too before I learned that trick and never had the problem but that really reduced the issue too! Just a thought....Like I said EVERYONE is so different...,
Take care Kalisha

[krisakira]

i took it in the morning... my logic was that there would be less of it in my system when i woke up (as it was right before taking another dose) and therefore not affect my ability to get out of bed. didnt work well though.

[kalisha36]

Originally Posted by krisakira

i took it in the morning... my logic was that there would be less of it in my system when i woke up (as it was right before taking another dose) and therefore not affect my ability to get out of bed. didnt work well though.

Yeah I dunno,

I mean I guess you would have to miss a dose and then start off in the night and then you would wear if off kinda but then it would build off slowly? Not sure how it all works, but like I said NOT sure it's for everyone either you know? We are all so different...UGH...The dr.s just say do this or that!! Blah...Who really know's lol...However I mean I know so many people gain so much weight on Depakote and I never gained anything at all? I also do take effexor timed release and topomax too! So who know's? However I just faithfully when I just restarted the depakote erm I am on my 2 month now but I started it in the morning the first time cuz I fired my pdoc and I did it in the morning I could NOT FUNCTION at all...I felt like I was drunk and hung over.....I could not even get my kids to school...It was horrible...I felt like I should not be on the road....However then I remembered what the jerk off had said and the sickness was gone and the ickness was gone and I was back to myself and had no issues...I know the tiredness I do have is from other issues that I have however not the medication...But like I said it's just me too......
hugs Kalisha

[krisakira]

yea everyone is different! i don't remember why i never told the doc i was having trouble waking up, otherwise he might have changed me to a different med. i didnt take it for anger issues, i took it for pseudo seizures, which started out as fake then i got to the point where i really believed i was having them and had no control over them, which is a long story in itself but back to the real point... yes everyones different, what works for one person might make things worse for another person, thats why theres so many different meds out there and its a trial and error kinda system cause we dont know how our bodies will react until we try them

[bpd2]

Never tried depakote...never heard of it being used for anger, only for the "deadening" you describe.....sort of a mild kind of sedative. I'd ask him for a mood stabilizer. I did a lot of research on my own, as my first pdoc sucked...went "armed" to my second pdoc. When I met my third pdoc (this all in a little over a year), we both knew exactly what the other was talking about. I'm on Tegretol and Lamictal, I took Wellbutrin for SI and other urges for a long time. I have Nuvigil for as needed and Ativan for as needed. I also have someone who keeps my pills for me as needed--but I haven't needed that for over a year--and I'm proud of that....

Lots of work to make the drugs work and then the therapy can work....

[cluelessgluten]

I was on depakote and efexor. Worked OK but I got a real bad sinus infection and had forgotten to take pills because I slept a lot. 3 days cold Turkey made me the worst I'd ever been. I ended up getting arrested because I got into a fight with a cop. I found Topamax worked pretty good it just makes you kind of dumb.