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What is your approach to duration, dosing, and continuation of lithium monotherapy in patients with a single lifetime manic episode stabilized on lithium?

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Psychiatry · Christiana Psychiatric Services

There are a number of variables involved here in making this decision. It only takes one manic episode in a lifetime to make the diagnosis of bipolar one. However, and deciding the duration of lithium, I would like to know what the rest of the patient’s mood trajectory has been. Are they pretty much...

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