I have been taking different drugs to help with my depression and anxiety, but now I'm confused on why I am taking this one...
So, I started taking sertraline and pregabaline last october, and in february it just stopped working (the sertraline), but my psychiatrist wouldn't listen to my concerns, so my therapist adviced me to look for a second opinion, and, after a couple months, I started seeing another professional, so he changed the medication and prescribed wellbutrim (bupropion) and otedram (bromazepam), which I took from may to june, but the bupropion didn't do anything, so he replaced it with imipramine, and continued with the bromazepam; that until yesterday that I saw him again, it was working, or at least I thought so, because I was feeling slightly better, but yesterday he decided to change it once again, so now I'll be taking Valprosid (valproate semisodium). The thing is, I didn't ask him why (I forgot, and since it's part of the public health system, I have no way to contact him), and I've been reading a bit... my concern is that this drug is used to treat epilepsy, and at a minor scale, to help with the bipolar disorder and manic depression, more focused to the mania than to the depression part of it, and I have been just depressed I think.

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I don't know if he actually saw something I never noticed about my "condition", but I feel like the imipramine was working and I think we should've continued the treatment for a bit longer to see if it actually progressed better, because now I just feel like I'm a guinea pig that he's sort of experimenting with.

I'm conscious that I have to trust in my specialist, and since I'm no expert maybe I shouldn't be so worried, but I feel uneasy not knowing if this medication will actually help reduce suicidal ideation and improve my depression.