pjeby comments on This Failing Earth - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2009 04:09PM

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Comment author: pjeby 26 May 2009 11:21:00PM *  0 points [-]

Lithium is being used because it's practically the only thing that works.

FFT (Family-focused Therapy), IPSRT (Interpersonal Social Rhythm Therapy), and CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) have all shown some promise in this area, actually. (Interestingly IPSRT has some crossover with Seth Roberts' "morning faces" hypotheses; part of IPSRT is regularizing social rhythms -- i.e., what faces you see when and for how long.)

Comment author: Annoyance 27 May 2009 07:56:30PM 0 points [-]

I am strongly in favor of non-pharmacological treatments - assuming they work, of course.

I have heard of those strategies before, but frankly if I had manic depression I'd be pursuing them only as adjucts and supplements to lithium. And I think the stuff is literally poison.