Have only have one session with my new pdoc so far, and that was one of the first things she said regarding medication - no lithium. I didn't even bring it up myself, she opened up with it out of left field. She said she doesn't think I need anything heavy like lithium. She wants to try monotherapy with an atypical anti-psychotic. I wondered about it myself because she told me to go home and research bipolar medications while we wait for my lab results and the next appointment, and almost everything I read mentions lithium.