Mood Stabilizers

After learning about mood stabilizers and mood swings in chapter 14, I realized that when I was younger about three years ago a family friend was going through some tough times and I was not really sure what the problem was. I was old enough to realize what bipolar mood disorder was and I talked to my parents about our friends situation and my mom told me that she had a mood disorder but that doesn't make her any different than anyone. In this chapter I learned that Lithium can be used to help patients going through this disorder and made me realize that our family friend at the time and currently is probably still using this to help her.