I ran across this post as when I got really sick renovating a house I ended up a neurologist who recommended lamictal and that I was bipolar. My symptoms were bad neurological defect inability to concentrate intense burning headache, muscle aches, neurological pain in my arms and general stiffness and fatigue with twitching muscles, heart arrhythmia and anxiety. I couldn't understand how all of a sudden I had become bipolar however was under an extreme amount of stress (living in a half torn apart moldy house with no heat while serving as my own contractor under 300K of debt with no job as my arm pain interfered with my computer consulting practice ). I tried taking anti-depressants. My headaches got much worse and I turned a pale whitish yellow and developed fatty lumps under my skin called lypomas (wellbutrin) my friends (later) said I look like a cadaver. I felt like my symptoms did not match what was generally diagnosed as depression or bipolar but my regular doctor and neurologist insisted that I was depressed in some form or another. After another year or so of being really ill and trying different AD meds and finding no way out I was getting pretty desperate. I heard of a plce in Hawaii that a friend recommended cleans and unbllocks your interal organs using nothing but water. As a scientist and engineer and builder I was skeptical but felt like something like that might be the best path - it was a shot in the dark. I sold the house and dropped $5K on the treatment and trip to the big island It was like being let out of a cage my body turned from yellowish white to pink and healthy looking in less than 5 days. I dropped 20 lbs of the unrecognizable stuff out of my colon and liver. I believe I had a problem with cholestasis - stagnant liver bile that solidifies when you work too hard without drinking enough water causing bad digestion and absorption of nutrients leading to all sorts of problems incldung toxic liver and portal hypertension and jaundice. It's now two years later. The only thing that is wrong with me now is a small amount of fatigue and irritation in my frontal lobe when I work long hours at the computer. I continue the cleasing process and may go back. Contact me if you might be interested in the details. Drugs may be helpful to some and I may try an antidepressant to get me over the top but if you start medicating while your organs are not working well due to a lifetime of bad eating and lack of exercise ( or in my case working physically to exhaustion and then ordering out pizza and eating on the run for months on end) you might want to try another way. Oh and I'm not bipolar. Lamictal taken in the state of health I was in would probably have killed me. I'm now 41 and have a new life to look forward to and a whole lot wiser. There's a book called the amazing liver and gallbladder flush. It's the real deal.