{"id":4291,"date":"2011-10-18T21:02:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:21","slug":"what-is-so-great-about-lamictal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/what-is-so-great-about-lamictal\/","title":{"rendered":"What is so great about lamictal for bipolar disorder depression?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lamictal.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4338\" style=\"margin: 25px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Lamictal medication bipolar disorder lamotrigine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lamictal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Here is the link to one of my most popular posts.\u00a0\u00a0 You may notice that I write a lot about Lamictal on this blog. I&#8217;m not someone who believes in drugs only- but I do know that of all of the drugs on the market for bipolar disorder &#8211; this is the best depression drug used today.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always a risk for people with bipolar disorder to take anti depressants such as Prozac or Zoloft as they have a high risk of mania if not used with a strong dose of a mood stabilizer. I believe that my constant rapid cycling is due to the 10+ antidepressants I was put on the first three years after my diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Lamictal is a much, much safer drug\u00a0 for those with bipolar disorder and has relatively few side effects- the link below explains more about the side effects that <em>can <\/em>be worrisome as well as the stories on how great the drug can be when it works.<\/p>\n<p>I say that Lamictal takes away 50% of my bipolar disorder symptoms- <strong>and the rest are up to me.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p>Click <a title=\"lamictal lamotrigine bipolar disorder medications\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/lamictal-lamotrigine\/\">here<\/a> to read more.<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lamictal.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4338\" style=\"margin: 25px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Lamictal medication bipolar disorder lamotrigine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lamictal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Here is the link to one of my most popular posts. You may notice that I write a lot about Lamictal on this blog. I&#8217;m not someone who believes in drugs only- but I do know that of all of the drugs on the market for bipolar disorder &#8211; this is the best depression drug used today. It&#8217;s always a risk for people with bipolar disorder to take anti depressants such as Prozac or Zoloft as they have a high risk of mania if not used with a strong dose of a mood stabilizer. I believe that my constant rapid cycling is due to the 10+ antidepressants I was put on the first three years after my diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Lamictal is a much, much safer drug for those with bipolar disorder and has relatively few side effects- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/what-is-so-great-about-lamictal\/\">[ 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\/4291"}],"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=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11640,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/11640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}