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Lithium compounds are used as a psychiatric medication. A number of salts of lithium are used as mood-stabilizing drugs primarily in the treatment of bipolar disorder where they have a role in the treatment of depression and particularly of mania both acutely and in the long term. As a mood stabilizer lithium is probably more effective in preventing mania than depression and reduces the risk of suicide in people with bipolar.

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