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Why do they work ?

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I honestly don't know why Lithium works.
They just know it does.
Like many things in medicine...they stumble across a cure for one thing while investigating another.

So, a drug is working for me..and I don't know why.

That's faith, stupidity AND madness.Better than NO meds though, I know that much.
Do you know why meds work ?
Or don't work ?
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Yes because I am so cool and Lithium only likes really cool ppl.
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Like those Beauty Product adverts with the 'Scientific' parts.

Cos you're wuff it
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No not worth it just really f'n cool!!!
deleted_user
deleted_user
You're having Delusions.
UP the dose
dancingd
dancingd
Lithium is magic dust from another planet...sent to calm the tranplanted inhabitents from this magic planet...since we(the magic people) have a hard time dealing with the sluggards of Earth...we have Lithium to help ease the anxiety of having to live off our native planet...and they lived happily ever after.
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Yeah, I'd like to know how and who figured out that beepers do well on anti seizures. But it makes it easy to explain to my freinds now, i just tell them that being BP is like being epileptic, but instead of flopping around on the floor, my brain can't stop my mouth from saying stupid shit because it's having a seizure. They get sudden clarity that way, and I don't get the "poor you" looks anymore.
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you need more too : )
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That was for Dancing
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deleted_user
I think I may ask to go back on lithium when I see pdoc next week. I'm on 4 meds now & I am up & down far too much to function right now. Sometimes simple is best.
deleted_user
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you're doing pretty good at dancing yourself today.

I figured as much. I didn't have a creative comment that warranted a response like that.
deleted_user
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It's funny you say that cos I'm finding I am going back to that in a lot of ways.Simple is best.
My psych says that too.The cocktails of drugs are very 'incentive' driven.

"Drugs run America"-Alexander Shulgin
dancingd
dancingd
AH..Pluck,I've had my dosage raised twice this month..the mania is getting to me...the kind of mania that is fun...I'm smarter,prettier,talk too fast ,move too fast...by the way,I'm on Depakote ...HAHA!! not Lithium!
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Depakote.....sounds like a paint
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the same reason some people think prayer works.... if you believe in it it works
MrGrub
MrGrub
Did you know: lithium is made with penguin claws.... FACT!
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