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Old Jun 25, 2018, 10:13 PM
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Congratulations on your new house GoldenSnitch!


I'm still depressed. I wanted to stay in bed today but responsibilities toward my visiting son and mother in law got me out. I dragged myself around but I was 'happy' to see my son even though he ended up leaving pretty early.


I put 'happy' in quotes because it's just a momentary happiness. But I'll take it over the months of depression I have been in.


I'm looking forward to sleeping tonight - get some relief from this gray cloud. The increased dose of lithium isn't working yet - it has been 3 weeks now. I read someplace that it can take 6 weeks to get the full effect of lithium.


A few years ago my pdoc increased my Lithium to 1800 MG. It still did not help with my depression. I went on Lamictal and once I reached therapeutic level it really helped. I hope you have better luck with your Lithium increase. It may work for you.
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