How Lithium Changed Mental Health Treatment Forever
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Lithium carbonate has a long-and rather rough-history, but at the end of it all, this medication changed psychiatry forever. No longer were bipolar patients hospitalized their entire lives. Instead, they got to live fairly normal lives thanks to lithium, whose true value lies in its ability to prevent bipolar relapse, not just halt mania in its tracks.
And while we don't know exactly how it works, we know that it does, and it does it well.
Also, 7up used to contain it and the resulting product was sometimes marketed to children.
History is wild.
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Congratulations on your video! You are to be commended. You know, I have bipolar disorder type 2. I used lithium before and it made me gain weight. That was 4 years ago. So, I switched to Depakote, but it wasn't good for me, so I took other medications. Now, my new doctor reintroduced lithium here in Brazil under the name Carbolithium CR 450. I take two every night for a year and I haven't gained weight. But why haven't I gained weight? Because my new doctor advised me to see a nutritionist to eat properly, and I also drink at least 2 and a half liters of water every day. I also exercise; in my case, I walk five times a week for 40 minutes. I don't drink coffee, I don't use alcohol. So, I haven't gained weight and I'm doing well with this medication. The good thing about having lithium is that it's the only medication that protects our brain from dementia in the future. I'm not saying we will have dementia, but lithium protects the brain and stabilizes us, that's what my doctor said. So, it's been a year since I've been fine: I study, work, and have plans for the future. Yes, it is possible to be whatever we want in life; we have to face and fight with positivity. I forgot to mention that I have a psychologist I see every week. You are young and intelligent. Never give up. Hugs from Brazil!
THE QUEEN IS BACK. Also fun fact, the romans used lithium for people with bipolar disorder! It has a pretty extensive history.
WHAT NO WAY THATS SO COOL
I take lithium, abilify, guanfacine, and memantine. The entourage effect gives me a lot of side effects but I'm extremely stable and its spared my cognition quite a lot compared to when I was on olanzapine or the select times I've taken haloperidol. I also take a plethora of supplements to deal with some cognitive side effects still and to reduce the cognitive effects of schizophrenia and bipolar. I take a lot of potassium and sodium with a shit ton of water because it seems to reduce lithium side effects massively for me. I've regained my ability to play music creatively without having to stop my medication.
I also aim for a lower level of lithium than average. 0.4-0.7 is where I try to stay at 900mg at 230lbs.
water helps a lot indeed, so do regular eating habits. =)
I used to take 1200mg of Lithium, but it caused me to have a seizure. I don't know why, since I was taking 2l of water every day. So my psychiatrist decreased my dosage to 600mg until my next appointment with her. It has helped me a lot though, it's been a while since I last had a depressive episode
Lithium is part of my arsenal of meds for treating my mental illnesses. I like it. You're amazing, very well spoken and intelligent.
A great run down of Lithium, a lot of things I didn't even know about, and always felt that Lithium was one of those drugs which got a bad reputation of being dangerous. It's something I take for my Schizoaffective disorder, but I've only been put on it for about a week now. Thanks for the history lesson.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m really glad it works well for you. It has pretty much the reverse effect if you don’t actually need it though. I was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, lithium was a terrible experience for me that resulted in multiple psych ward visits. It wasn’t as bad as Latuda as far as causing intrusive thoughts but it did wreck my body pretty badly
Great vid Kit. Thing that gets me about lithium is it being a tiny, simple inorganic ion, and yet is so highly efficacious as a mood stabilizer. Amazing
Crazy right!?
Thank you for all this fascinating information
This was very interesting!! Thank you! I’d love it if you make more vedios like this^^
Wooo will do!
Ive been on lithium 9 years. Generally it takes care of the affective side if my scitzoaffective bipolar
That was so informative! I would appreciate more videos like this. You put a lot of work into researching this.
I am totally hyped to have more in the works!
OMG! So interesting!!!! ❤
I like these kind of videos. I´m fairly new to your channel and watching all of your video lately.
Excellent…..Very helpful….xox
Thank you ❤
Love that educational stuff, I learned a lot in this video. Good job!
Heck yes thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! ^_^
good video kitz!
Thank you!
me encantó el vídeo!! aprendí un montón!! gracias 😊
oh my god,im fighting the urge to say nirvana reference 🙁
I absolutely love you
On and off??? Micro doses of what works❤
How is it that SSRi can make me manic but stimulants like Ritalin don‘t.
I want to know the answer to this one too!
Like you I can‘t take SSRi‘s for my depressive episodes but I fould out that ritalin works very well to ceep me stable. ( I have ADHD)
ritalin made super paranoid withdrawn and robotic like depressed i do have add. glad it helps you though❤❤
I was told I had adhd when I was a kid, they put me on dex amphetamine and it would literally make me ping (feel the effects of what speed users would feel) so I was like 🧐🧐, well if it is having the opposite effect then obviously I don't have the diagnosis do I 😂😂😂❤❤❤meow
I would definitely try a cold bottle of lithiated 7-up. 😂
I know right?!
I've never tried lithium I take zyprexa the only antipsychotic I take.
Not gonna recommend you do or don't start lithium but I got put on Zyprexa while I was on lithium and it was a pretty good combo, they're fine together but I don't like Zyprexa. I still take lithium, but I use abilify now.
@@jeremymaez5311 abilify made me a zombie and it made me grind my teeth. Before zyprexa I took Seroquel 800 mgs but I took it for 5 years it stopped working on me and I got put on zyprexa which has been a life saver it's helped me a lot only thing I miss about Seroquel is that id sleep deep zyprexa doesn't sedate me at all when I first took it the first two weeks I was sedated during the day but then it went away. I also take carbamazepine, gabapentin, Belsomra, Clonazepam, amytriptyline, benzotripine,and zyprexa
I used to take Lithium without sticking to a therapeutic dose. Now i'm careful and my levels are between .4 and .6. It's hard to tell if my long spell of good health is to do with my MAOI, or if Lurasidone helps. Clearly , Parnate is my primary AD and the drug I really need, but I haven't been manic in a year and I no longer think I can get Paul McCartney to play at my birthday party, so the mania seems to have been pushed to one side. So are you going to become a mental health clinician Kit?
Nah just a nerd on the internet ^_^
parnate thats not prescribed much it actually looks alot like amphetamine and they say it gives alot of energy that i can make you euphoric. ive never tried a maoi i think it would really help my low motivation and anhedonia and social anxiety
im down to 50mg quietiepine. was on 800mg during full send mania
This was such a cool history lesson! I learned so many things about lithium that I never knew (like the fact that it was an ingredient in 7-Up at one point! LOL)
Something that really stood out to me were some similarities between lithium and gender affirming hormone therapy. Like how everyone responds to it differently, so taking the same dose doesn't result in the same levels in the blood for every person (and yay for the Coleman Flame Photometer finally making that possible for lithium, because that guesswork does indeed sound scary!). Gender affirming hormones were also prescribed pre-FDA approval in the early days before there were any sort of healthcare standards/guidelines for transitioning, and there's still an "underground" for hormones in a lot of places with transphobic laws. I love that there was a lithium underground in the US too (and "lithium underground" sounds like a badass band name XD).
I love how much lithium has helped people in multiple different ways. Especially with getting people discharged from hospitals and keeping them alive. It sounds like a miracle drug indeed!
Oh thats such a cool point with the hormones!!! They’re a little more…complicated than lithium but there are SO MANY SIMILARITIES now that I’m reading this comment and thinking about it. I wonder what like, factors contribute to how much testosterone or estrogen one gets in their blood at doses. Hmmm might go out and research that 👀
Lithium guesswork terrifies me. There was a girl I knew in the mental hospital who was on lithium and she had her levels checked when she arrived and it was above that higher limit and in toxic territory but somehow she was fine and I have no idea how she was okay. But…. Bodies are different! And that’s a case in point. She still went off it tho. They like took away her pills 😂
Glad you enjoyed this one, it’s one of my favorites!
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Yeah I just wanted Valium
I take lithium Orotate and works well
yup plus coupled with orotate it gets in the brain much more efficient so the dose is sooo much lower and virtually no side effects....
Lithium is a drug? I though that It IS a supplement, a mineral.
It is a mineral but the salt form, lithium carbonate, is a psychiatric medication. Lithium orotate is a otc supplement that some take, but it’s not as strong or as effective as lithium carbonate in many people. In its pure form, it combusts in air and reacts violently to water, and is not easy to obtain because of that. Hope this answers your question!
You should stop eating wheat and seed oils.
It's so nice that people have the ability to "observe" certain natural phenomenon and then make use of it for benefit of humanity, even if, like in case of lithium, the "how it works" is unknown. I'm really glad lithium works for you Kit, it didn't work for me at all, maybe I was given too low of a dose, and it was prescribed to me without an antipsychotic. Thanks for your videos Kit, best wishes.
I hope one day we will learn why it is so powerful! Thanks for your comments as always!
Thank you!