Before ERISA, some defined benefit pension plans required decades of service before an employee's benefit became vested. It was not unusual for a plan to provide no benefit at all to an employee who left employment before the specified retirement age (e.g. 65), regardless of the length of the employee's service.
1 Whether you have bipolar I or II disorder, you'll typically need mood-stabilizing medication to control manic or hypomanic episodes. 2  Examples of mood stabilizers include lithium (Lithobid), valproic acid (Depakene), divalproex sodium (Depakote), carbamazepine (Tegretol, Equetro, others) and lamotrigine (Lamictal). The medication Symbyax combines the antidepressant fluoxetine and the antipsychotic olanzapine. 2  It works as a depression treatment and a mood stabilizer. 3  Symbyax is approved by the Food and Drug Administration specifically for the treatment of depressive episodes associated with bipolar I disorder.
1 Other medications may be termed mood stabilizers but lithium is the only drug technically of that class. 2  Lithium is FDA approved for use in bipolar mania and bipolar maintenance treatment although it is frequently used to treat bipolar depression, often in combination with other medications.ist of Mood Stabilizers. Mood stabilizers are medications that moderate the manic highs and the depressed lows of bipolar disorder. The following list contains mood stabilizers used in the treatment of bipolar disorder: 1  Lithium â the only true mood stabilizer.