page_title: Mood stabilizer
hierarchical_section_title: Mood stabilizer
caption_attribution_description: English: A bottle of lithium capsules
context_page_description: A mood stabilizer, is a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts, such as bipolar disorder and the bipolar type of schizoaffective disorder.
context_section_description: A mood stabilizer, (or mood stabiliser), is a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts, such as bipolar disorder and the bipolar type of schizoaffective disorder.
caption: A bottle of lithium capsules. Lithium is the "classic" mood stabilizer.
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