Right now I’m on 200 mg of lamotrigine and I feel like it’s been helping *a lot*. Overall it balanced things out. Something triggered me though a couple of weeks ago, and it caused a depressive episode early last week and it was so bad I skipped an exam bc I didn’t care anymore and almost dropped out of school for the semester.  I also withdrew from all my friends, I didn’t want to talk to anyone. 

But it didn’t last long, typically my depressive episodes last a week at the very least, usually longer. That only lasted 3 days. The 4th day I entered in a mini hypomanic episode because I took out a 7k loan which I was not planning for. In general I had racing thoughts, hyperfixating, spewed out random crap to my friend. I wrote a loooong message about dreams I had and daydreaming about being a mother of all felines?? Idek, I’m reading what I wrote and it’s just messy. I was nothing like the previous days basically, and it only lasted a day. I told my family about the loan and they looked at me like I’m crazy, they don’t believe it when I tell them. Other things happened too but I don’t remember. 

My question is—being medicated, it balances your mood, but when episodes do come are they shorter for you too?  This all happened in less than a week, yet it was intense. I told my therapist &amp; psychiatrist and they were concerned for sure. Lmaaaaooo…