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Thoughts of the Week: Lithium Revolution “The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.” - Nikola Tesla Lithium is an inexpensive mineral that not only sparks the current electric car revolution, but can spark a revolution in mental health as well. It has been used in psychiatry for decades, but mostly for specific indications such as bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), and at high doses that often border on toxicity, and always lead to side effects in the long run. At much lower doses, it is safe, well tolerated, and the best single medication we have in psychiatry, in my clinical opinion (as a psychiatrist who has seen over 10,000 patients in my career so far). It is also one of the only two FDA approved medications for suicide prevention, the other being the antipsychotic clozapine. My teams have also done genomic and biomarker research in psychiatry over the years. A consistent top match to biomarkers is lithium- across disorders. It matches to panels for stress, anxiety, mood disorders, even memory, and pain. As such, it may be a transdiagnostic neuronal function optimizer, that should be considered as an add-on and preventative. There are some medical counter-indications to being on it (should not be taken during pregnancy), but most of the others can often be avoided by a low dose strategy. Notably, parts of the world that have lithium in the soil and drinking water have less suicides, violence, and mood disorders. Our default question and strategy as a field, moving forward, needs to be not why somebody should be on lithium, but why somebody should not be on (low dose) lithium. Live. Happier. Longer.

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Psychedelic drugs can rewire brain circuits. On the positive side, they help people get unstuck from bad things ( depression, PTSD, addictions, chronic pain). On the negative side, they can make people who have a predisposition to disconnectivity to become untethered from reality ( mania, psychosis).

Thoughts of the Week: Gratitude and Motivation “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”      –  Melody Beattie As we come upon Thanksgiving, we should all make a renewed commitment to being grateful for things, big and small. It is one of the surefire ways to be happier. Does being grateful for things dull your competitive edge? Do you become more complacent? Not necessarily. Gratitude is underlined more by serotonin, and motivation by dopamine.  A simple way to look at that is a 2 x 2 matrix between Gratitude and Motivation:   1.  High Gratitude-High Motivation individuals Happily Achieve. This is the best quadrant to be in. 2.  Low Gratitude-High Motivation individuals Achieve. 3.  High Gratitude- Low Motivation individuals are Happy. 4.  Low Gratitude-Low Motivation individuals Unhappily Fail. You want to get out of this quadrant as soon as possible, using whatever bio-socio-psychological measures and treatments necessary. Get unstuck, get moving. Usually by giving something first, taking some positive action. Saying Thank you! for the things in your life, and Thank you! to others, as often as possible, are good things to do. Not only at Thanksgiving, but year-round. #happiness Live. Happier. Longer.

Life satisfaction is a GPS for life success. It can be subverted by addictions. So 80% of success is avoiding addictions, broadly defined, including digital/ informational addictions. 20% is doing the daily hard work to be successful. Otherwise your life slips through your fingers. Similarly, in investments, 80% of success is not making bad investments of your resources, broadly defined ( not just money, but time, energy, attention). 20% is making good investments. Always think of the ROI ( return on investment) of everything you do in life. Vive or ROI!

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Treat your phone as if it is radioactive, a Chernobyl artifact, and handle it the least amount of time, for specific intentional tasks. ( Because it is, between the radiation it emits and the addictive social media:).