Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 6)
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Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America will publish a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs
. In this blog, he discusses the dangers of lithium, antiepileptic drugs, and ADHD pills. Each Monday, a new section of the book will be published, and all chapters will be archived
Lithium
Lithium is a highly toxic metal used for bipolar disorder. Like most other psychiatric drugs, it sedates people and renders them inactive. Serum concentrations must be closely monitored because toxicity can occur at doses close to therapeutic concentrations.