"first  i want to thank you all for your helpful reviews. it helped me to do my own research so i can suggest my choice of treatment to my psychiatrist, rather than just trusting the one he suggests. after being diagnosed bipolar 2, he suggested another med. i strongly advocated for lamictal. i tapered up to 200mg, on a conservative schedule. i&#039;ve had good results over the past 9 months. it definitely has lowered the instances of hypomania, or at least deescalated the intensity. it&#039;s done little to address the depression or anxiety, so we&#039;ve agreed to add anti-depressant. again, he suggested cymbalta, which i opposed due to the all the information regarding withdrawal syndrome. we agreed on a low dose of prozac which is going well so far."