He is on the starter dose of lithium...and it seems to not be causing any problems. It is ALSO making the inside of his head very, very quiet. No suicidality, an abundance of calmness and cheerfulness.

We've got high hopes.

...in other news, this will sound a bit paranoid. In fact, it might actually BE paranoid... But we think his long-time psychiatry consultant is not incompetent, she is actually deliberately malignant.
He's filed a transfer request, a complaint...and want to do more...you see...
We suspect that she likes to deliberately use medication and psychological tactics to get her patients to self-destruct.

Proving this beyond a reasonable doubt in multiple cases is going to be very difficult though. It will entail getting the service of forensic psychiatrists to crawl through case files.

But he and I want to get a class action lawsuit rolling if we can...

When Mr C and I first met online, mr C told me he could not get better...I asked him why he thought this...
Apparently, this psychiatrist had told him that nothing more could be done for him, he was hopeless.
She then discharged him when he was still acutely suicidal.
This is how Mr Crazypants wound up addicted to heroin.
He could think of no other thing to keep him alive.

I just thought she was incompetent at first...but she also cold-turkeyed him off of benzodiazepines at one point, though that's medically dangerous. She canceled his treatment team, no reason given, just canceled them, leaving him with no support.
Last hospital trip she refused to change his meds AT ALL.

This time in the hospital she told him he does not have depression and PTSD. he has a character disorder.
This is because he " should have gotten over" his childhood sexual abuse trauma, his war trauma, his trauma from losing over 40 people ( friends and family), according to this psychiatrist...WTF???

Is she that dense or is she trying to make him feel like his illness is his fault? I mean..at what point do you suspect someone has to be deliberately playing head games with vulnerable people?

Mr C has talked to other patients of hers, and it seems she finds a working med cocktail, then pulls them off the working meds abruptly with no explanation...or gives them meds that make them worse, then sections the patients when the meds make them explode.
All while treating the patients she sees with contempt.

I can't thonk of a much more vulnerable population for a malignant psychopath to play with than MI people...the MI people are cognitively impaired, and if they do figure it out, who will believe them?

Another patient of this psychiatrist suicided last week, it seems said patient, a bipolar, was sent out of the hospital with no med refills...wonder whose fault that was?

So...that's where all that's at.