mood stabilizers
Bipolar treatment drugs
Mood stabilizers are medications that reduce extreme fluctuations in emotional state, primarily used to treat bipolar disorder.
They help prevent both manic highs and depressive lows, evening out the swings: She's been on mood stabilizers for years and says they changed her life.
Lithium is the classic example, though anticonvulsants and some antipsychotics also serve this function.
- valproateAnticonvulsant mood-stabilizing compound
- lithiumLightest solid element
- antipsychoticsDrugs treating severe mental disorders
- anxiolyticsDrugs reducing pathological worry
- bipolar disorderExtreme mood cycling illness
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- Neuroactive Drugsdopamine, serotonin, GABA, acetylcholine, norepinephrine
- psychiatric carepsychotherapy, psychiatry, psychiatrist, medication, therapy
- psychoactivesLSD, MDMA, cannabis, psilocybin, heroin
- mood boostersantidepressants, SSRIs, SNRIs, MAOIs, Prozac
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Agents that heighten arousal
amphetamines · cocaine · methamphetamine · corticosteroids · anabolic steroids
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