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.
The more common antidepressants that are used to treat the symptoms of depression in bipolar include Fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), and sertraline (Zoloft). These are the ones that I have seen prescribed by the psychiatrists that I work with.edication Education. The medications that are prescribed for bipolar disorder can be very helpful to an individual who experiences extreme depression or mania to such an extent that his/her behaviors cause problems in their lives.