I’ve googled this and searched through reddit but nothing gives a clear explanation. Antipsychotics can apparently help stabilize your mood… essentially making them mood stabilizers? How are they different from actual mood stabilizers then? Are they just mood stabilizers that can help with extra things? If someone with a mood disorder has tried a lot of different mood stabilizers that don’t help effectively, what advantage could an antipsychotic have over those medications?
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They can to some degree help stabilize your mood. The class of medications known as antipsychotics (really two classes, first and second generation) share a particular set of effects within the brain itself. They were originally made to treat psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, and were found later to also reduce the symptoms of bipolar disorder.
Mood stabilizers don’t really share a method of action so far as we know currently, so they’re not necessarily their own class of medication the way that beta blockers or ACE inhibitors are
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