Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind

A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder.
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It began in Los Angeles in 1993,*when Jaime Lowe was just sixteen. She stopped sleeping and eating, and began to hallucinate-demonically cackling Muppets, faces lurking in windows, Michael Jackson delivering messages from the Neverland Underground. Lowe wrote manifestos and math equations in her diary, an...