My daughter was diagnosed with bipolar after telling her dr. she was depressed and anxious. He put her on lamictal and she spent years feeling depressed and suicidal. When she found out she was pregnant she went off the lamictal and there has been no depression. Her psychologist after talking with her several times, thinks she was never bipolar but has ptsd instead. The lamitcal made her feel worse but her psychiatrist kept increasing the dose.