I was recently hospitalized for suicidal depression. The Psychiatrist put me on Depakote. Almost immediately I began having severe bouts of diarrhea. This doctor told me nothing about this drug. She called it a mood stabilizer. When I asked her about whether or not this was a side-effect, she basically told me not to jump to conclusions. However, I thought I remembered reading about this drug being some kind of anti-seizure medication, but when I asked her about this, she neither confirmed nor denied it. Now I ve read that it is used to treat mania, but I was hospitalized for depression not mania. Do you think this is the type of drug I should be taking?