[Beowulf9]

Because they are stupid enough to go to a shrink and let themselves be dosed with a toxic metal —lithium-that causes brain damage.

[yarddog]

This particular girl was taking Xanax. I have heard it is habit forming but that is about all I know.

[Beowulf9]

Lithium was first tested on healthy guinea pigs and it made them dull and lethargic...so then it was tested on healthy people...and it made them slow and lethargic.....so then somebody had the bright idea that it could cause somebody prone to manic episodes to become less manic and more dull and lethargic!
So much for the “cure” to a “chemical imbalance” which is presumed, not proven by science. As one doctor has argued. nobody is suffering from a “lithium deficiency”. Lithium is a very poisonous metal.....
The term “bi=polar” is meant to sound scientific like two brain hemispheres....but the two poles are “manic” and “depressive”...just repackaged an old diagnosis......to sell to the neuroticized masses....

[goat granny]

Lithium was first tested as a heart disease medication. The trials found out that it helped people with bipolar problems more than with heart patients. Its use was strictly by accident in trials...there is a county in Texas that has natural lithium in the water and they have been found to have a significantly lower numbers of bi-polar problems...

It is a naturally occurring substance in several parts of the country... Having worked periodically on the psych unit at the hospital, those on lithium get weekly lith level blood drawn, because it can be toxic. The blood levels of lith. have a very strict perimeters of use. Lith levels were constantly being adjusted according to blood levels...

Like any power medication, if not monitored can be fatal..the same goes for those people on medical blood thinners (not aspirin)like coumadin.