Discussion Lithium is FDA approved for BD treatment of manic episodes and maintenance
therapy. Lithium has also been shown to significantly reduce the risk of completed suicides
in population-level data. Lithium is an important maintenance treatment for BD, delaying the
time to mood episodes. Despite these recommendations, lithium use rates have remained
low, which could be explained by the emergence of medical conditions such as renal,
parathyroid, and thyroid dysfunctions (among others) and increasing pharmacopeia of …