Hi,

I’ve been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and I started lithium monday.
My doctor told me to take only one pill once a week for 8 weeks, and make blood checks once a week.

I know one pill a week isn’t enough to judge, especially considering I only had one pill, but I was feeling really reeally good before lithium and now I’m really depressed and I’m having a lot of suicidal thoughts 

I’ve been diagnosed in 2015 and I always had depression episodes in winter, it never happened in summer before

My doctor is in vacations and doesn’t reply to my mails 

I couldn’t find anything on having a depressive episode because of lithium so I wonder why

Also I didn’t have a manic episode in 2 years so I’m starting to wonder if I’m even bipolar, what could lithium do to someone that’s not bipolar ??

Any advice could help me I’m crying a lot while writing this, I might call the hospital.

Have a nice day