PPT Slide
At this point in my life, I cannot imagine leading a normal life without both taking my lithium and being in psychotherapy. Lithium reverts my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and the webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive and makes psychotherapy possible. But ineffably psychotherapy heals…..
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills ; likewise, no amount of analysis alone can prevent my manias and depressions.
-A patient with Manic Depressive illness