My mom claimed that the reason she took Depakote was because of seizures that she had in her twenties. Yet she was still on Depakote forty years later, and when she tried to go off it in her seventies along with adding an injection of a steroid for a physical ailment, she went full manic and tried to leave her marriage of fifty years and drive to the Twin Cities with ten thousand dollars in cash. (She was hospitalized involuntarily and put back on Depakote.)
