Lithium

Let me tell you a secret: Lithium is nothing to worry about. I don´t understand why this lovely medicine has been put down for so long. Why is it said to change people? Well, of course it changes people (that is the whole point), but in a good way. You won´t loose yourself on lithium - on the contrary. You get the chance to find yourself because it takes away both depression and mania. But in between those states are lots of healthy moods and feelings and states which people with a bipolar desease rarely have a chance to get to know.

I am on lithium now and I am getting to know myself in a different way than before. I don´t have to try to see past the depression, because the depression is not there. I am happy, but not in a manic way filled with restlessness and a need for things to happen. For the first time I feel content and calm, but I havent lost any parts of myself. Is this how "normal" people feel? Lucky them!