Sarabi has symptoms of major depression and severe mania. her doctor decides that the best course of treatment to alleviate all of sarabi's symptoms is -------> a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor and lithium.
Doctors prescribe lithium augmentation to patients who are non-responsive to depression medicines. Usually a significant proportion of depressive patients do not respond to the first anti-depressive treatment independently of the class of drugs used.