Posted by barbaracat on June 30, 2005, at 14:41:15
In reply to Re: Vive le Lithium! » barbaracat, posted by Maximus on June 30, 2005, at 13:57:13
**Hi Maximus,
I wonder the same thing. None of the other mood stabilizers, anticonvulsants do a thing for me, only lithium. I've been on the trail of how it works for some time and, as with most research when they don't know, theories keep changing. But I'm doubly intent on finding out now after this recent experiment because whatever it is that makes us so susceptible to what lithium does no doubt affects other bodily systems as well.In the end it's probably going to be explained by faulty gene sequencing, but why and how it responds to lithium would be a valuable piece of information. I'll let you know what I dig up and you do the same, OK? - Barbara
>
> I really feel the same. I'm like you. I'm bipolar II, mainly on the depression side. I've tried everything known to the mankind on earth. Lithium remains the only thing which stabilizes me. Of course i have read a lot on mental illness, mostly on bipolar disorder. But do you have an idea why we share this characteristic, i.e. to be VERY good responder to lithium?
>
>
>
poster:barbaracat
thread:509665
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20050627/msgs/521594.html