Overmedicated or Undermedicated?

what is your suggestion of the best medicine to use in conjunction with Depakote for mixed bipolar Disorder??? My husband had great success (8years) on Serzone and Depakote,now has been removed due to the problems ass. with Serzone..he has tried Lexapro which now has him isolating and social phobic as well as insomnia..he is now on Zoloft and still experiencing same symptoms..thanks Tammy

Five years ago, after I flunked out of college, I not surprisingly got depressed and sought out help. Around this same time, I was being weaned off my ADHD medication for the first time in my life...long story short, someone decided that I was bipolar and now I feel like I am waaay on too much medication, but 2 psychiatrists later, I feel like my voice still isn't being heard. I take 15mg of adderall in the morning and 600mg of tripletal 3x a day and then 200mg of topamax and 300mg of lithum at night. I just recently started seeing the second doctor, and he doesn't believe that I couldn't possibly have been misdiagnosed and that I don't not need medication, and that more will make me better!!! I am not an irrational person and if I wasn't misdiagnosed, I can live w/ that, but I was, I do not need to be medicated any longer, but how am I supposed to convince a psychiatrist that on routine basis hear from patients that they're not nuts that I'm not???