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Although anticonvulsant agents and calcium channel blockers do not have any clear advantages over lithium, they do offer patients who cannot (or will not) take lithium another treatment option. It is not yet clear from the literature who will respond best to which drug or combination of drugs. The nurse should be supportive to the patient and family, in what may be a drawn out process, to find the...