{"id":197,"date":"2012-05-04T06:29:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/05\/31\/bipolar-disorder-medications-mood-stabilizers\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:15","slug":"bipolar-disorder-medications-mood-stabilizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-medications-mood-stabilizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Medications: Mood stabilizers Lithium, Depakote, Tegretol, Lamictal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is a mood stabilizer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only &#8216;true&#8217; mood stabilizer is lithium. The\u00a0other three Depakote, Tegretol and Lamictal\u00a0are called\u00a0mood stabilizers- though they were not originally created for bipolar disorder.\u00a0 Lithium, Depakote and Tegretol are usually used as anti mania drugs. Lamictal works especially well for depression, psychosis and rapid cycling. I happen to be on Lithium for depression. So it can be used for both mood swings.<\/p>\n<p>If you are familiar with my work, you know how I feel about Lamictal. It changed my life.<\/p>\n<p>I respect my drugs- I struggle- but I respect.<\/p>\n<p>Are you on a mood stabilizer?<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to talk about side effects and withdrawal possibilities of bipolar medication. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-medications-mood-stabilizers\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11552,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/11552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}