This is my first time posting here and my second ever Reddit post so I don’t even really know what I am doing, but I wanted to share my experience lately. 

I have been stable for almost two years on my lamictal. Mostly it has helped my stay away from depression. I don’t get the same hopeless dread that I used to feel so deeply and it has helped me to maintain friendships and jobs a lot easier. But…

This year has been a shit show and I don’t know how I would have been without my medication. My best friend died in March and I got broken up with around the same time. Getting through that grief has been hard. Finally I was starting to feel better in the fall. Making new friends and then getting closer to a guy friend of mine. Eventually we started to date and I was very happy until he cheated on me. Ever since, my moods have been rapid cycling. Never as low or as high as I would be without my medication. But I was feel like I don’t want to exist in the morning, crying my eyes out and then in the afternoon I will just be goofing around, gregarious, feeling amazing. 

It is a strange experience for me because before my meds, my mood swings would last months to years, and now I am experiencing quick switches throughout the day.

Anyway, anyone else experience rapid mood swings when they are going through hard times even when medicated?