I haven't but my friend has. He was also scared to take the medication, but me and his other friends helped him through it, so far he has been more than fine. His mood swings are much less aggressive and more uncommon, he seems much happier. Sorry i can't give you a personal experience, but i hope this helps. :)

Did you know, Lithium is natural. It comes out of certain Springs and water ways. There's fresh water springs under the Ocean where Lithium comes up.

The fabled lost Continent of Atlantis supposedly had a fountain of youth. Its believed it was an actual spring with Lithium coming from it.

It will help to make you feel.... Good.

Try it!

Yes as Seamus says lithium is a natural mineral and I do go to a hot springs that has a high concentration of lithium in the waters. Two hours of soaking provides a wonderful uplift of happiness inside. Those that arrived and were wearing a frown get out with a big smile on their face. Pretty impressive results from only a topical application of the mineral. Only take the prescribed dosage as too much can bring on accelerated feelings as well as feeling lightheaded or dizzy. It really is an amazing mineral that needs more understanding of why it’s important to us and why it works the way it does. Interesting that not everyone needs it but we must have a hormone that replaces it.

You need to trust your DOCTOR ... or stop wasting his/her time and yours. In this case, no one knows better what is right for you than he/she. THERE IS NO WAY one would prescribe anything that would not help you.

Begin your medications JUST as the Doctor prescribes. This is like calling a cab and refusing to get into the taxi.

There are good doctors and bad doctors (I'm striving to be one of the good ones). Never blindly believe anyone (me and WanderingVet included).

With that said. Lithium can be good for you, and in small doses, there's nothing to be worried about with respect to Lithium alone. However, Lithium may interact with other drugs, supplements or food. Such interactions may have severe outcomes. Most of drug interactions occur because your prescriber (your doctor in this case) is not aware of your other medication, supplements, or the food you're eating. But some may occur out of just pure negligence.

You can always check interactions yourself. As a patient, you have access to tools such as drugs.com, which have an interaction checker. I highly you suggest it for all drugs you ever are prescribed in the future. You just simply write any drugs you're on, and it will tell you whether an interaction exist or not. Or you can browse through known interactions for a specific drug.
Here is a direct link for browsing interactions for Lithium:
https://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/lithium.html

I have a background in medical research (oncology), but are currently doing research in adverse drug reactions. Hope this helps you make your decision.

I would change my reply from:

THERE IS NO WAY one would prescribe anything that would not help you.

to:

THERE IS NO WAY one would prescribe something that they did not think would help you.

Try asking her about Lithium oratate.