"i have just been diagnosed with bipolar 2.  i have been on antidepressants for 23 years and as i got older the drugs didn&#039;t work as well. i suffer from depression panic attacks severe anxiety and phobias and erratic mood swings changing daily even hourly. so now i am on 300mg effexor, valium and have just started in increments of 25mg of lamotrigine. before this i took epilim which was great but within 2 weeks had a rash everywhere. now i am up to 75mg of lamotrigine and i have headaches tiredness sleeping up to 15 hours plus diarrhea, sick, depression aggression anxiety the list goes on. its been 6 weeks and i am loosing it.... my mental health team is useless. will this get better???"