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Mood Stabilizers
Benefits of mood stabilizers
Concequences of stopping medication
- risk of suicide
- early relapse, worse course of illness, hospitalization
- personal losses (job, family, future plans)
Treatment Options
To treat mania:
- lithium, divalproic acid, carbamazepine, +/- atypical antipsychotics
To treat acute depression
- mood stabilizers
- lithium -
- valproic acid -
- carbamazepine -
- lamotrigine -
- antidepressants (but can cause people to flip into mania)
- benzodiazepines
- antipsychotics
- side effect medications, anticholinergics, beta blockers
- ECT
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