Lithium for conduct disorder??? - Anger Management Message Board

SunnyDarkness · 07-31-2003, 07:16 PM

Anyone heard about studies that have been done using lithium as a medication for conduct disorder and other aggression and anger disorders?? I was reading about it the other day and just wondered if anyone had any first hand experience using lithium for this purpose?

DALIE · 08-01-2003, 01:53 PM

HI WHEN I WAS 12 YO I LOST MY MOTHER FROM AIDS AND FOR A LONG TIME I COULDNT CONTROL ANY FEELINGS INCLUDING ANGER I USED LITHIUM FOR 2 YEARS PROBLEM WAS IT HAD TO BE AT A CERTAIN LEVEL AND I HAD TO GET BLOOD DRAWN EVERY WEEK WHICH REALLY SUCKED BUT OTHER THAN THAT I WAS IN TOTAL CONTROL OF MY EMOTIONS

HOPE THIS HELPED

bok · 08-15-2003, 05:18 PM

I am on lithium...i have bipolar disorder, wich = half the time i used to be severly angry....it has got so much better...someone can cut me off in traffic now...my kids and get crap on the seat of my car now...and im like um honey, can you please clean that up....not YOU m f sob ()*#)(*$%#)(&$* i will KIll you if you dont clean that up.....good bye to that... thank god

wannabehotguy · 08-22-2003, 11:55 AM

You people seem to be proud and full of compassion for your dysfunctional and irrational and even abusive behavior. What you need to do is get yourself into a cognitive/behavioral therapists office as soon as possible. Taking lithium and other medications have big chances of cutting your life short, ruining your kidneys and liver, and among other illnesses, all for what? Because you people cannot get yourselves into a therapists office to work on your obviously self defeating behavior and thoughts and beliefs. You people must have had bad parenting from your parents and traumatic experiences. That is why you people lash out at every whim. You need to heal from those traumatic experiences with a good therapist. If you not you will only find yourself alone and in misery. Is your goal for peace, harmony and happyness? Hmmm, maybe it is not. Maybe you people should change your goals.

SunnyDarkness · 08-22-2003, 01:28 PM

Well I'm not on these meds wannabeahotguy, I just happened to read a study about it so I thought I'd ask. And not all problems are caused by bad parenting ya know. You ever heard the term biology before psychology. Some people have true chemical imbalances in their brain that no amount of therapy would be able to change. Medications level out the chemicals.. it is only after the chemicals are at correct levels that therapy would be able to help an individual. If you had a bad childhood then Im sorry, but some people have problems that stem from true problems. Many of these people had great parents who did all they could to help their children!!! You should really become more informed before comin on this board and making comments.