I've been on Lithium (900mg) since 2017 and it's a pretty good base of a medication that helps my main symptoms, but not all of them.
Ever since then, I've been on Lithium + a thousand other combinations to control psychotic or anxiety symptoms.
Since none of them seemed to work, my doctor prescribed Lamictal with Lithium. In case Lithium just needed an extra help from another mood stabilizer.

Lamictal worked wonders for me after a couple weeks and I almost forgot I had a disorder in the first place .But I go to a public psychiatric hospital and medications are free and donated, except for Lamictal, and I couldn't afford it. Unfortunately, I had to stop taking it and got bad for 2 weeks after it until I got somewhat stabilized again (back again with anxiety symptoms but no depression or anger). I went to the hospital again and miraculously could get back into it bc they were able to donate some for me again. But as soon as I started taking it again, I got into such a bad depression I even started cutting again after 3 years of haven't done so. I'll keep taking it since I'm starting to get better again and my psychiatrist might prescribe a higher dose of lithium and drop Lamictal completely.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? Does Lamictal actually affects brain chemistry that much?