Before ERISA, some defined benefit pension plans required decades of service before an employee's benefit became vested. It was not unusual for a plan to provide no benefit at all to an employee who left employment before the specified retirement age (e.g. 65), regardless of the length of the employee's service.
Lithium. The medication used most often to treat bipolar disorder is lithium. Lithium evens out mood swings in both directions â from mania to depression, and depression to mania â so it is used not just for manic attacks or flare-ups of the illness but also as an ongoing maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder.ithium evens out mood swings in both directions â from mania to depression, and depression to mania â so it is used not just for manic attacks or flare-ups of the illness but also as an ongoing maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder.
While antidepressants are effective treatment for people with major depressive (unipolar) disorder, antidepressants they are not always as effective for bipolar depression, and generally should not be given alone (monotherapy) in people with bipolar I disorder.ccording to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), lithium, lamotrigine, valproate, carbamazepine, and most atypical antipsychotic medications are approved by the FDA for treating one (or more) phases of bipolar disorder.