I started taking Lithium Citrate again after many years off it. I was fine last time I took it but this time it is not helping my depression at all. I was hoping to get back to the way I used to be. But right now I am holding onto my life by a thread. I am barely making it to work. I am in a long deep dark depression and I can't seem to crawl out of it. My PDoc (who is also my therapist) just raised my Lithium hoping It will help, but I am getting worse!
I cry all day, I can't sleep, I am irritable, I feel like I have lost days and days of my life. I feel ugly and old. I can't see things the way they are. And my mind is loud. I talk to myself- a lot. I can't go outside unless I absolutely have to.

I don't know what to do. I have literally tried every psych med out there. It seems like maybe my brain has become desensitized to the meds and I have no hope.

Has anyone had a bad reaction to Lithium (aside from toxicity of course)???