Posted by shelliR on July 12, 2001, at 9:32:50
In reply to Re: What's difference betw mood stab. and anti-psychot, posted by Shar on July 12, 2001, at 0:10:18
> Here is my terrible (but I think essentially correct) explanation:
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> Mood stabilizers help people plane out, people who go up and down like bipolar II folks. It just evens out the mood, but keeps people out of the clouds and out of the pits.
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> Antipsychotics at low doses can be used for treatment resistant depression (like mine) and supposedly bring one up and out >of the depression a bit more. It works in one direction--to bring people up, as it were.ADDITION: Mood stabilizers can also be prescribed to "work. in one direction--to bring people up" They are often combined with antidepressants as the first tactic for partial response to that antidepressant, or poopout. For example lithium is often used in that context, as are lamictal and topomax, etc.
> > Can someone explain (in layperson's English!) the difference between Mood stabilizers and antipsychotics? Thanks.
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