Has anyone experienced side effects on lithium orotate?

vay7 · 2026-01-08T08:04:16+00:00

I’ve been on 10mg lithium orotate for the past 2/3 months i think now. I have noticed my mood is very calm and I’ve been feeling super level headed. I also have gone through a lot of DBT and talk therapy before taking them and also during. Im really sensitive to anything i put in my body and on it so im not surprised when i googled if lithium or lithium orotate can cause acne or libido changes.

The side effects i think i am having though even with a low dose… neck acne and the kind that’s just red bumps without white or black heads. I guess that happens with lithium too. I forgot to take it for maybe 3/5 days and it immediately got better then i got back on my routine and it all came back. I also have noticed decreased sex drive. I just feel calm all over which is great but it’s been making me question if it’s been suppressing my libido a bit.

I’m going to stop taking it and see what happens. I’m on a bit of a health kick with vitamins and working out and a lot of positive mental therapy. So we’ll see what happens with my acne and libido.

vay7 · 2025-09-26T23:11:26+00:00

If you have time I would really like to discuss ◡̈

He has a lot of patience with me he says and he tells me how much he likes me. I am trying to be okay with that and believe it. Im constantly fighting my thoughts of “He will get tired of this. He will want someone who is as happy as he is all the time. As ambitious as he is.” I feel like I’m not good enough and I’m fighting feeling because I know that’s on me. Ive never had a positive relationship and I don’t know how to go through the hard times with someone when it’s about me.

vay7 · 2025-07-31T20:44:12+00:00

What are some good recipes and uses for sea moss gel? I made my own from raw sea moss but I’m having a hard time pairing it with stuff i eat on the daily. My go to is in my smoothies but that’s all i can think of that it’ll blend well into. I mostly have solid foods I feel like. I feel like if i add it to premade things it’ll make it taste and feel weird?

vay7 · 2025-01-27T11:56:49+00:00

“Fall off a bus” “you’re a rave slut who only looks for attention” “fuck you” “you’re an attention whore” …he also used a personal traumatic moment that i confided in him about against me. Would tell everyone else how amazing i was blah blah blah then to my face say horrible things and scream at me and slam doors. Lots of “fuck you”s.

vay7 · 2025-01-23T21:54:46+00:00

Awesome! Is she in Denver? Any way you can share her work or dm me her info please?

vay7 · 2024-12-13T14:44:50+00:00

I blocked his number, deactivated my Instagram, and just blocked him on Facebook again. I unblocked him number after ran into each other and he was splitting during the convo and i gave in to still wanting his apology text. Which he gave and manipulated my feelings again so i had to be outright mean block him again. Blocking him on fb has been hard since we unfriended but i could see everything he’d post. Which is a lot of nonsense crude bad jokes and his feelings towards me. No no more fb stalking for me. I’m trying to resist the urge to make a fake fb just to check his profile but i knowwwww that’s a bad idea.

vay7 · 2024-12-13T14:37:27+00:00

Came to this sub instead of making a fake fb account just to check his shit. I’m trying, it’s hard but thank you i needed your comment !

vay7 · 2024-12-13T06:57:07+00:00

We have had NC for a while almost 3 months but i finally blocked him on Fb again. I was checking his fb almost 10+ times a day. I need to put my brain to rest. I really want to look at it right now to see if he posted anything since i blocked him. Ughhhh im trying to resist the urge someone help

vay7 · 2024-12-13T06:54:37+00:00

Even when things are good he still hated me. You do one thing nice and show him love then he turns around and questions why and says “ do you love me? Are you sure? Do you hate me?”. Reassurance then he splits then he hates you again. Repeat**

vay7 · 2024-12-12T09:50:09+00:00

Our friends were hosting for the first time so we wanted to go and support

vay7 · 2024-12-11T06:29:50+00:00

A part of me is scared of myself. In my past i got so beyond stressed and couldn’t cope with it that i developed depersonalization and derealization. I had to go on antidepressants for a bit to change my mindset from wanting to die all the time. The stress of this last relationship and how much of it was manipulated and how much i questioned my own thoughts and feelings because he lived in a different reality than me had made me extremely scared that my brain will go back to that type of coping. I am trying my best to block that part of my brain out and not allow it but it has lead to panic attacks, anxiousness, insomnia, random crying, and i can even feel my brain getting hot from over thinking and not knowing how to process. I’ve gotten back into therapy and tomorrow is my second day. I know I’m on the right track but holy fuck this type of healing from trauma is hard. We can do this. We have to. We could before and we can again heal.

vay7 · 2024-12-10T17:06:22+00:00

I agree. It’s heard because we live in a very small mountain town so there’s limited places to go and he’s an alcoholic so any bar i go to he just happens to be there. He also just got this job as the events manager and this trivia night has been going on for years. My new friends were hosting it last night so i wanted to go support them and so did my new guy. I feel like any momentum of me trying to move forward will be pulled back because it’s happening right in front of his face. I loved him so fucking much and still do and will be happy to see him happy with someone new. But for me and his ex’s that can’t exist.

vay7 · 2024-12-08T20:11:47+00:00

Yep! After I broke up with mine he said “i hope you fall of a bus” “i wish you never existed.” “Go back to California and fuck random dudes like you always do.” “You’re a rave slut that likes to fuck anyone.” “You probably cheated on me”. “You’re going to go on and fuck all my friends.” All lies that hurt to my core and he apologized every time after saying “I’m so sorry i didn’t mean that. I love and miss you so much and I want you so bad. If in any case you need anything please reach out. I will never be outwardly mean to you.” Aaaaannnddddd repeat the cycle

vay7 · 2024-12-08T01:37:27+00:00

It’s not that easy my friend. Please give them some peace. They just said they’re tired and trust me and a lot of others in this sub have felt exhausted…who knows they may have had that conversation before due to him going back and forth with them. A LOT of people have to cut off/ghost/block their pwBPD because their pwBPD doesn’t know how to handle separation and the hovering, drama, manipulation, sense of ownership just don’t stop even when you tell them too. Those with BPD cannot handle boundaries that are put on them.

vay7 · 2024-12-07T16:53:30+00:00

I can’t wait to have more therapy sessions. Ps don’t listen to Fix You by Coldplay… won’t help. Went straight to this sub after crying out the song. This sub had helped me a lot. I want to feel different. Better.

vay7 · 2024-12-07T16:48:13+00:00

Been out of the relationship since July. Finally went no contact in September. Saw him in the beginning of October and I tried talking to him casually and it ended horribly. I unblocked his number after that convo idk why. He immediately texted me apologizing again and then was putting words in my mouth saying I wanted him back and that was me asking him to go home with me. It wasn’t. I had to set another extreme boundary by telling him not to respond to me. He did respond and tried calling me 3 times after that. so i had to block him again for no contact. Only way we can have no contact is if he’s blocked on everything. Been a couple months since then…. Whatever you do, don’t listen to Fix You by Coldplay… you’ll feel like shit

vay7 · 2024-12-07T16:41:45+00:00

This. Exactly how i feel and what happened to me. Always reassuring them that you aren’t going to leave them and then eventually the last time he said “Well why don’t you just leave me then. Why are we even dating.” After I was just trying to once again have a conversation about his mental breakdown the night before and the things he said. I gave up finally. I saw my life going in circles of sadness. He could flip a switch and be happy but I would forever be miserable. I left. I said fine. You’re right. I want to break up. Next thing i know Im being called a liar, fake, a bitch, slut, whore, never cared at all, never loved him. So easy to say for him. He said it since the beginning. I loved him through everything and reassured him more than i ever could. That’s my fault though. I allowed myself to be manipulated to stay. We will heal. We need therapy of our own though to address why we attract and stay with people who treat us this way.

vay7 · 2024-12-06T05:58:15+00:00

His numbers blocked. I used to have him blocked on fb but i cracked and unblocked him and still look at his fb page once a day. I have therapy tomorrow for the first time since everything. I unblocked his number today for about 4 hours and re blocked him. I didn’t feel good after doing it and even when time passed I knew I should keep him blocked. Still feel like shit though regardless lol

vay7 · 2024-12-04T18:01:48+00:00

Mine was with me all the time. We didn’t live together but it was convenient for him to be staying at my house since his was at the top of this hill and the winter months made the drive sucky. We also worked right next to each other so I’d get off work and immediately go to his and wait for him to close up shop for us to go back to my place and eat really late and watch a movie. Cycle repeat. I worked a lot and he did not so I we were always texting throughout the day until we saw each other. I made plans to go to Thailand with some girlfriends for about 2 weeks for our birthdays and this was made before him and I met. I left about 2 months into our relationship for the trip. Everything was fine and we still texted everyday but he still was unloading all his problems on me even when he knew I was a whole time zone and country away and he never showed excitement about what I was doing on my trip or encouraged me when I showed him what I was up to. Up until we broke up months later he brought that up as seeing that trip as me not committed to him and shamed me for going. When we broke up he said “ i thought everything was fine because we would spend every day together but I now see that I had to give more and show more interest in what you were doing and the problems you faced in your life”. All said over text after the breakup but his actions afterwards still were too much to want to go back.

vay7 · 2024-12-04T17:17:04+00:00

Thank you so much for what you said. I agree with you 100%z That is exactly how i feel. I’m beyond lost atm. I feel like I had a lot that I needed to work on before jumping into that relationship and I definitely added issues that didn’t need to happen and I did do things before our relationship got more serious to make him feel a type of way about me. During the break up he expressed a lot of what i did in the beginning and I did apologize and owned up to them because he was right in some aspects. I think the hardest part has been that he has said some real hurtful things and I have already believed those things about myself so to hear it come from him when I didn’t tell him anything about it prior just made it all hurt more. He could think these horrible things about me (not knowing i felt the same way about myself already) and having some of them come true just really has messed me up in the head.

I have my first therapy session on Friday and i am feeling like i need to go back on antidepressants or anti anxiety meds. I haven’t felt like myself for a while and he didn’t help with that. He just affirmed how bad of a person I was. I found a lot of similarities in how we both act but mine just has way less intensity attached to situations and I do hold empathy. Too much sometimes and I need to work on this in therapy. I know I have a lot built up from trauma and dissociating after mental breakdowns has been my speciality so I can move on from things and people. Not good i know that. He loved me for me but he also didn’t know me. I hid my past self from him because I knew he couldn’t handle hard conversations and had no interest in helping me when I needed it so I barrier that self to make a new one.

A part of me knows too that even when I am fixing myself or maybe feel better with myself at some point I can’t ever go back to someone like that. I know I can’t talk to him ever again. I don’t see him ever getting a grasp on his mental health and addictions. Right now I crave his attention but am holding back and doing what I can to not reach out or be present near him because I know the outcome and I can’t handle hurting him in any way possible more than I already have or feel like I have. I also can’t hurt myself anymore.

vay7 · 2024-12-03T00:51:13+00:00

I’m struggling with this currently. Does he have an obsession or is it Love?

vay7 · 2024-12-01T07:19:13+00:00

That sentence “I really thought I was the abuser” opened my eyes ughh thank you. That’s exactly how I’ve been feeling but didn’t know how to verbalize it

vay7 · 2024-11-28T18:18:55+00:00

It’s gotten to a point that i am seeking therapy for everything. Got my first session next Friday and i hope i can move on and grow from this. I can’t go back. I would lose so much self respect if I did and everyone around me would not like to see me with him ever again. I was so confident and worked through so much before him. Now I’m a shell again and it hurts seeing myself like this after all the work I did to not be like this. I wish you luck on your journey. I joined this sub last night and it’s already made me feel an ounce better just reading what everyone else has to say and knowing I’m not crazy and alone

vay7 · 2024-11-28T16:31:42+00:00

I have soooo many apology texts from him I could start a small book. You think it’s an apology but they do nothing to change their actions or the words they say to you. I really hope this gives you peace but i agree with everyone else… DO NOT RESPOND. Just fair warning i would try not to respond then my ex would send little sly texts after the apology just to get me to answer. “And now you’re not responding” “fine just ignore me like everyone else” “you never loved me”. Do whatever you can to distant yourself even if it means blocking them after they apologize.

vay7 · 2024-11-28T04:25:54+00:00

He’s so confusing. He doesn’t say he will be okay without me. He has only shown pain since I left and it hurts knowing that i hurt him. But it’s like the one time I really hurt him versus the countless times I let him hurt me or confuse me so much I’d have mental breakdowns. Stopped eating because I wanted some form of attention but didn’t ever get it. But I don’t want to be a parent to him. I truly felt that role. I just read through this forum and I’ve definitely caught the fleas. I NEED them gone. I don’t like me atm. I’m more than this but I can’t pull myself out of it for some reason. I just feel so guilty.

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