How does lithium reduce suicidal ideation?
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We really don’t know exactly how a lot of psych meds work. We didn’t create them to treat disease but rather found that the ingredients had certain effects and applied those effects to treating illness. We really don’t know
We really don’t know exactly how a lot of psych meds work. We didn’t create them to treat disease but rather found that the ingredients had certain effects and applied those effects to treating illness. We really don’t know
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.
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.
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.
I was put on lithium during the worst of my depression and the difference was shocking. There was a literal buzzing sensation in the back of my head and it was like I had not spent the last several years in a suicidal spiral.
Complete 180 from where I had been just a day before. I stayed on it for about two weeks, so that they could adjust my therapy and medicine.
It was definitely one of the key factors that saved my life.
I was put on lithium during the worst of my depression and the difference was shocking. There was a literal buzzing sensation in the back of my head and it was like I had not spent the last several years in a suicidal spiral.
Complete 180 from where I had been just a day before. I stayed on it for about two weeks, so that they could adjust my therapy and medicine.
It was definitely one of the key factors that saved my life.
I was put on lithium during the worst of my depression and the difference was shocking. There was a literal buzzing sensation in the back of my head and it was like I had not spent the last several years in a suicidal spiral.
Complete 180 from where I had been just a day before. I stayed on it for about two weeks, so that they could adjust my therapy and medicine.
It was definitely one of the key factors that saved my life.
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