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A mood stabilizer is a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts, which is not the same as "feeling good one minute and then bad the next." The most common is bipolar disorder, where mood stabilizers suppress swings between mania and depression, and these drugs are also used in borderline personality disorder. Most mood stabilizers are anticonvulsants, with the important exception of lithium,...


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I found out yesterday that i was 2 months pregnant....and ive been on mood stabilizers...

What mood stabilizers are you taking? I was taking Lithium, seroquel, and zoloft and went off my meds. My regular doctor told me that the benefit to me...

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What is the difference between antipsychotics and mood stabilizers?
I've been diagnosed with bipolar and almost every bipolar person I've talked to are on...

antipsychotics are just what they sound like - anti psychotic. In bipolar they are primarily used to control the psychotic features that some individuals who are bipolar have during mania...

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    i need some advice on mood stabilizers ie.lithium anything how they make you feel side affects a couple months ago.I have had 2 doctors tell me that lamictal is the best mood ...

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    Mood stabilizers for me have been generally positive. Although I also require 2 different the long term effects. My reason for being on mood stabilizers is more for anti-anxiety and manic

    Mar 05, 2008


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