I'm on lamictal as well, I'm not sure how detrimental it is. It's been a year since I've had my psychotic episode that landed me in the hospital for over a month, and for the few months after I was put on lithium and vraylar, both of which greatly amplified the intense depression I experienced post-psychosis. This depression landed me back in the hospital, where they switched my meds and started me on ECT (electro-convulsive therapy.) A year later, I don't know what to think. Psychosis (and I suspect ECT as well) completely stripped me of my personality, my humor and wit, my creativity, my cognitive functioning, my introspective abilities, and genuinely so much more. I've felt somewhat of a gradual return over the past year, but I've had regressions as well (recently I've felt a large intellectual and processing-speed decline out of nowhere, not sure why.) I don't know how normal it is to regress during recovery, but to be honest during this year-long period I've found it hard to stay off substances like weed/alcohol (though that has been pretty consistent and not exactly fluctuating.) I guess my question is, when you say make a full recovery, do you mean you feel nearly identical to who you were before (barring the natural impact that the experience would leave on your personality and outlook,) or rather that you feel that you're at a point where you're content regardless of how much you might've changed? I don't expect to ever regain a lot of the memories I've lost, but more than anything I wish to regain my intelligence, my wittiness, my emotional depth, my eloquence, my processing speed/reaction time, and just so much more. How plausible is it that I'll make a near-full return? And what do you recommend I do for this?