Lithium Orotate - Safe Mood Stabiliser with Brain & Metabolism Repair Capacity

Nice article - https://www.naturalmentalhealth.com/blog/lithium-orotate

I love love love my Lithium Orotate 5 mg - I have taken this supplement for about a decade & rarely miss an evening without it in my Cinnamon Yogi tea (I empty the capsule in as I don’t like capsules so much).

I can’t remember whether or not I was still taking it when I got high in 2015, ( this was my last Bipolar High FYI) I may have let it drop as I was taking a lot of different things whilst running a SuperFood/Herb shop for my friend. The reasons for that high are many & complex but by far the biggest reason for that high was the stress of impending benefits changes to benefits I had been reliant on since my teens & my sorry ass misdiagnosed undiagnosed nervous system did not know in which direction it should run so it went *up*  & didn’t stop till it hit the *ceiling* lol but no, ouch, really seriously the most painful experience of my entire life was that high but especially the entirely unmedicated crash.

Also I would add that my life was literally saved that year by the fact that I didn’t drink alcohol & was generally rather introverted & unsociable. I’d given up alcohol at 40 & along with it my facade of ease at interpersonal camaraderie, so getting on easily with others went away also. This worked well for me on that high as being so unhinged from reality, in & out of that, makes a gal excessively vulnerable to more manipulative types, but not if you don’t interact with them of course.

Anyway, back to the supplement- the reason I’m curious as to whether I was taking it when I got high is that you can increase the dose to 20mg safely for an increased mood stabilising effect but I because I was undx bipolar, I’d been told unequivocally & wrongly that I did not have it by a Psychiatrist in 2009, I’d always thought I had bipolar since around 18 but that threw me the biggest curve ball of my life. So I was not taking it for Bipolar, so I had probably lapsed it & I certainly didn’t increase dose (you can also increase fish oil x2 or 3 to prevent a bipolar high see the excellent Peter Smiths work Balancing Brain Chemistry Naturally in my side bar for full details).

I’m explaining this to demonstrate that Lithium Orotate did not fail me in 2015 I did not utilise its full potential or any of the other things that I know about now & have been using that will pretty faithfully prevent a high taking hold. To be honest, the most important defence against that high in 2015 would have been having the diagnosis & some support & to have had protection from the benefits changes. 

I’ve rambled on, it’s my blog I should definitely do that here 🙌