Kinda doesn't give me much hope since you've been at the med rollarcoaster for nearly 10 years now!
I was on Lamictal for quite a while and my doc just took me off it last week. It was okay....just not enough for me i guess. I don't know....i get so confused about being able to tell if ANY of them do ANY thing for me at all. I mean, i could tell that my moods did stabalize pretty well....i could still feel the daily fluctuations from high to low, but they didn't go very far up or usually very much farther down (than what i was already at). But of course, when your already at the bottom of the barrel there's not much further down you can go anyway.
So what's the longest Maj. Dep. episode anyone in your family has had??????????? Or do you guys mostly struggle with the manias rather than the depressions?