"i&#039;ve been on generic oxcarbazepine, 600 mg 3x day for years and it wasn&#039;t quite enough, alone, to control my bipolar disorder, but taken along with lithium, seems to have finally been the combo i needed to bring me back to reality with stable mood, although it does make me very sleepy. i was crying every day and alternatingly unreasonably angry for years and years, going undiagnosed for decades. bipolar runs rampant in my family, so i don&#039;t know why i didn&#039;t realize that was my issue, too! just never put it together after watching my brother and sister&#039;s crazy rages, since mine was so different than that! derp!"