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Mood Stabilizers
Mood stabilizers are used in the treatment of
Bipolar Disorder.
Its purpose is to
stabilize acute manic, mixed and/or depressive symptoms. It does not induce the alternate
mood symptoms (for instance, does not cause a switch from depression into mania or mania
into depression and prevents future relapses into manic, mixed, or depressive symptoms or
episodes). Mood stabilizers, when required for acute treatment of manic, mixed, and hypomanic episodes, often require several weeks to take effect. During this time other
medications including anxiolytics, sedative-hypnotics and
antipsychotics may be necessary to
assist in the treatment of symptoms of agitation, insomnia and psychosis.
Occasionally the addition of an antidepressant is required to manage a severe
depression.
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