How does lithium reduce suicidal ideation?
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So your cells exchange sodium and potassium ions as the basis of communication for what the cell should be doing. Lithium ions are right there next to sodium and potassium on the periodic table because it has a similar electron count and physical size. Your cells don’t do anything with lithium can’t tell it from sodium and potassium. It’s basically like a blank communication. This slows the overactive communication that is going on in the brain. This isn’t well understood but it’s how my doc tries to describe what’s going on.
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