^{Brand names: Priadel, Camcolit, Liskonum, Li-Liquid}

Lithium is a type of medicine known as a mood stabiliser. It’s used to treat mood disorders such as:

• mania (feeling highly excited, overactive or distracted)
• hypo-mania (similar to mania, but less severe)
• regular periods of depression, where treatment with other medicines has not worked
• bipolar disorder, where your mood changes between feeling very high (mania) and very low (depression)

Lithium can also help reduce aggressive or self-harming behaviour.

Lithium is available on prescription.

It comes as regular tablets or slow-release tablets (lithium carbonate). Brand names for the tablets include Priadel, Camcolit and Liskonum. It also comes as a liquid that you swallow (lithium citrate). Common brands of lithium liquid are Priadel and Li-liquid. _{Source NHS UK information}

So how can a little bit of compacted powder manage to work on a big adult