Mari,
I agree- and am trying to live in the present as well.

"Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard."
-Anette Funicello, describing how she deals with MS

Bizi,
My memory is pretty poor, but I'm pretty sure it was a combination of starting lamictal, reducing effexor, and time.

It wasn't the first time I experienced mania while seeing the former pdoc. My psychologist wrote in the notes that my symptom history seemed to point to BP, but the x-pdoc seemed to think it was only anxiety? There were suicidal thoughts and symptoms of mania already, but she still increased the effexor, and never added anything for anxiety?

My meds were redundant at that time: effexor AND zoloft AND buspar.