after I started taking Lamictal again, I found out it was one of the medications my father had taken, at a higher dose than what’s used for mood disorders, to control seizures after his brain surgery. When you take the medication for seizures, of course, there’s no stigma at all. When I take it for my mood disorder, there’s stigma because I have the mood disorder, and some stigma from old-school recovery folks who think that if I was really working the steps I wouldn’t need any medication.
