[dragonwriter]

Quite a lot of psychiatric drugs affect different people in different ways; I would be very unsurprised if the people the grandparent post recounts describing it as "turning into a soulless robot" are fairly describing their own experience, while the parent post fairly describes that poster's experience.

One probably should avoid hastily generalizing one's own experience to what the drug's effects are like generally.

[KrisAndrew]

We'll agree to disagree then. I've heard several complaints about lithium but none of them was "it turns me into a soulless robot." The way lithium works is by stabilizing mood, not by inducing a different mood like other medications (i.e. antidepressants). So I'm going to be facetious and say the people making those claims were soulless robots before taking lithium.