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Side rant:

Claiming that you don't believe in God is equally annoying as those sect guys knocking at your door. I do believe in God and I find the use of lithium in treating these illnesses a hope (with potential dead serious side effects: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456600/) but not the potential meaning of life (?! how can you compare lithium with the notion of God?!).

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Lithium gives her [her] life back, in much the same you believe god gave you yours.

I don't believe God made me specifically and I don't believe in God because I own him something. Also, God isn't slowly killing me by poisoning my body. Other people do that though (pollution). Other people do that whose end product(s) my life depends on (for instance electricity or food) and I don't believe them to be some kind of a deity.

OP doesn't believe lithium to be some kind of deity either. It's just a metaphor. Lithium gave them life, creator gods give life.

If lithium were a deity, it wouldn't exist.

> It's just a metaphor.

In your opinion perhaps. In my opinion it's a perfectly good example of poor writing as well as a superiority complex.

> If lithium were a deity, it wouldn't exist.

Please.

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