Is lithium used for people who have bipolar disorder?
Yes, but it is an old medication for the treatment of Bipolar but some people are still on it. They use several other medications now…because Lithium can be used to over dose and because you have to have your blood tested on regular intervals…it is not a 1st choice medication in the treatment of Bipolar.
Lithium salts The use of lithium salts as a treatment of bipolar disorder was first discovered by Dr. John Cade, an Australian psychiatrist who published a paper on the use of lithium in 1949. Lithium salts had long been used as a first-line treatment for bipolar disorder. In ancient times, doctors would send their mentally ill patients to drink from “alkali springs” as a treatment. —-Wikipedia— There are other prescibed drugs for Bipolar Disorder. To refer to any drug as ‘the prescribed drug’ is out of context.
