Lithium has been used since WWII to treat some types of mental illness. There was a military psychiatric hospital in Australia, which because of shortages, didn’t have any sodium table salt (NaCl) for their tables. So they substituted readily available Lithium Chloride (LiCl).
Then out of the blue, some of their patients stubborn conditions quickly became much better, for a time.
Eventually this led to the pharmaceutical use of lithium.
Back in the day, psychiatric centers used to treat manic depressive disorders with lithium. They don’t use that term anymore and prefer the bipolar definition.
Maybe we should load up leftists with some lithium and it might turn them into conservatives