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Originally Posted by Manic Trance
Hello everyone!
Sorry in advance for the long post!
I have recently been diagnosed bipolar. I saw three therapists and a psychiatrist who all agreed. The psychiatrist prescribed lithium, a low dose, and I'd work up into the perceptible range and then stay on it and give it a try.
That said! My family is concerned about health issues. I come from a sort of hippie background where people have very critical feelings about the psychiatric industry and about applied psychiatry. My wife really really REALLY doesn't want me to take Lithium, and my parents are concerned about my Thyroid. I trust my therapist and my psychiatrist, I really like them actually, and they don't seem concerned at all.
My wife wants me to do a holistic thing that's like this special diet, vitamins, regulated sleep, exercise, meditation, so on and so forth...
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Lithium is an element. Lithium carbonate dissolves in the body into free elemental lithium, it doesn't get any more natural, or organic, than that. It has little to no side effects at lower dosages, and research has shown this element has effects on the mind and body even in trace amounts.
I would take it even if it wasn't prescribed to me simply for the fact that it grows brain cells. I kid you not, it literally builds gray matter within the brain. It increases neuron density, and protects cells from the damaging effects of ischemia (i.e. stroke), among other things.