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Why aren't bipolar patients supposed to take antidepressants?
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Complications: Antidepressants may provoke a switch into mania in bipolar patients. That risk may be reduced with a mood stabilizer. For many bipolar depressed patients, treatment with a mood stabilizer alone is more helpful than combination therapy which includes an antidepressant.
Answered 4/15/2015
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They can: They can with caution & a mood stabilizer and/ or an antipsychotic on board--otherwise may push into mania.
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