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Antidepressants
- Bupropion (Wellbutrin, Zyban)
- Citalopram (Celexa, Cipramil)
- Desvenlafaxine (Pristiq)
- Fluoxetine (Prozac)
- Gabapentin (Neurontin)
- Mirtazapine (Remeron, Avanza, Zispin)
- Nortriptyline (Aventyl HCl, Pamelor)
- Paroxetine (Aropax, Paxil, Seroxat)
- Sertraline (Zoloft)
- Trazodone (Desyrel, Oleptro, Beneficat, Deprax)
- Venlafaxine (Effexor)
Antipsychotics
Atypical Antipsychotics
- Aripiprazole (Abilify)
- Lurasidone (Latuda)
- Olanzapine (Zyprexa, Zalasta, Zolafren, Olzapin, Oferta, Zypadhera)
- Paliperidone (Invega)
- Quetiapine (Seroquel)
- Asenapine (Saphris)
- Cariprazine (Vraylar)
- Ziprasidone (Geodon)
Benzodiazepines
Beta Blockers
Mood Stabilizers
- Carbamazepine (Tegretol)
- Lamotrigine (Lamictal)
- Lithium
- Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal)
- Topiramate (Topamax)
- Valproic acid (Depakote, Epival)
Good list, I’d also like to add Asenapine (saphris). It’s an atypical antipsychotic. I had a lot of trouble finding a med that worked well without having terrible side effects. I started this about two years ago and in combination with my lithium, it’s been a godsend, I’ve never felt more even-mooded for this long a duration ever before.
Thank you so much, I added it to the list. I feel like the new atypical antipsychotics are great, for me it was Vraylar (cariprazine) that helped a ton along with lamotrigine.
They’ve definitely come a long way with medicinal treatment for bipolar, even just in the last 20 years. When i was first diagnosed the meds helped level out the bipolar symptoms, but basically made me a zombie; now the meds successfully even me out, but I’m still functional.
Absolutely, it’s so much better now. You can actually hope to be functional and more or less “normal.” I always liked that meme that says we would have been lobotomized 100 years ago… dark but probably true.
Oh yeah, being bipolar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a horror show. First off, the general care in most asylums of the era were non-exist at best, and constant torturous abuse at worst; the most common treatments were powerful sedation drugs, electric shock therapy, or a lobotomy. My mom (who was also bipolar) didn’t remember most of her teenage years because of electric shock therapy. Nasty stuff.
It was awful! I can’t even imagine how different my life would have been.
Didn’t they make a show about the doctor who came up with the vibrator as a treatment for “hysteria”? I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called.
Funny that hysteria’s etymology is hyster, meaning uterus because they believed mental illness to be a woman’s disease
Do you mean ‘Masters of Sex’