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Love that 99% of psychiatric medication is just “yeah we don’t really know how it works, it just seems to do stuff lol”
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I do see how that may be. Just haven’t found any definition of what “chemicals” are “imbalanced” and what their correct ratios are. Still lookin’!
For Lithium, which is used to treat bipolar patients, there's a well documented level of therapeutic levels of lithium in the blood. Different people metabolise it differently because it's given as a salt.
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Interesting.. but that’s the chemical used to treat something, not the thing that’s actually “imbalanced” from what I gather. I understand there are trace amounts of Lithium naturally in the system, but not the imbalanced chemical.
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Yeah, it's not like bipolar people have lower levels than "regular" people. It's just meant to compensate for different ways the brain works. I understand "chemical imbalance" is extremely vague, not an expert on the matter.
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