Can lithium help someone that has bipolar disorder or schizoprenia?Will it help the person recover from it?
Lithium is one of the older drugs for both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. It’s still in use because for a lot of people, it’s highly effective. There are two schools of thought among doctors and mental health providers. One school holds that the first drugs to be prescribed should be the older drugs, like lithium. The other holds that you should skip the older drugs, and go right to the newer ones. I have chronic clinical depression, and the first antidepressant I took was imipramine, one of the old tricyclics. It worked for a time, but I had to move on to newer drugs. I do think it’s best to start with the older ones, since they have a proven track record, and there is plenty of research on them, and on how a patient responds to them. Where lithium has a great strength, and the reason I suspect it was given to you (if it’s been given to you) is because it treats both bipolar and schizophrenia, especially when the schizophrenia is associated with the mood changes of bipolar disord
i think it can help and some people only need to be on it for awhile while they get counseling from what a doc told a friend of mine but i also think some people may have to always be on it good luck i hope it helps you should at least give it a try that way if it helps then good if not they can change your medicine and be sure and tell your doc your ff ears
