So I am still trying the lower dosage of Depakote. Tbh, I am much more alive, but i still deal with the inner fear. I have more other issues too.
I just wanted to know if you were feeling worse on mood stabilizers? DO you think they kill the emotions? Plus i guess stabilizers never helped anyone for their anxiety and paranoia, is that right?
I just want to see how i will be like this, with fewer Depakote. I am not bipolar and i don’t have seizures. I was very tight on the higher dosage. I was also feeling like i cant think at all or feel. But i’ll see…
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Why are you taking a mood stabilizer if you are not bipolar? Many bipolar patients take APs for mood stabilizers. In fact they are more widely prescribed for that than psychosis.
I assume you are already on an AP.
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I have to be on Depakote @Anna1 but one of my diagnoses is bipolar.
Good luck
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I had a very bad experiece five years ago that made me feel really depressed. So my psychiatrist decided to prescribe my a mood stabilizer called Depakine. This medication made me feel worse. I started to feel more depressed. So I called my psychiatrist and he told me to leave Depakine. And he prescribed me 30 mg of Citalopram.
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I was on lamictal and stopped it because I felt bad.
Why you are on a mood stabilizer if you don’t have bipolar? You have simple schizophrenia, right?
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Did you have problems when you stopped it? I now sometimes don’t have energy, plus troubles breathing even…
Idk om why my ex doc gave it to me. I was the type of be in crying hystery a bit. I had headaches too. I think my sz is not simple, but paranoid with negatives… But I definitely wasn’t progressing on depakote. I was still sad, but it was oppressed. I didn’t have energy either…
@Anna1, What does your psychiatrist say is your diagnosis?
Mood stabilizers never did me any good until they put me on Tegretol. Then, I felt my mood go up just like an elevator in my body. I could actually feel my mood rising from my groin all the way up to the top of my head. And there it has remained ever since. Even after going off of Tegretol completely.
Gina, he thinks of pure paranoid schizophrenia even without negatives… But my ex pdoc was saying paranoid sz with negatives, but maybe she didn’t want to scare me, idk…
Hi all! Well, in general the docs doesn’t know how to help me anymore, cause ive really tried all possible meds, but now we are still trying to lower the Depakote. We didn’t dare to touch the Zyprexa. But for the moment, I am a bit better with less Depakote… I am less tourmented and even less anxious. Is it possible, that the Depakote was making me worse, people? To even give me more anxiety? Ive also lost already one kilo and am less swallowed… I was in pain with this med. And I don’t think I am bipolar or even sza, no… I am more anxious and paranoid and some other stuff. Talk me about the mood stabilizers, are they really so bad when we are not bipolar? lol…
Take care all
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