With appropriate treatment, the outlook for someone with bipolar disorder is favorable. Most people respond to a medication and or combination of medications. Approximately 50 percent of people will respond to lithium alone. An additional 20 to 30 percent will respond to another medication or combination of medications.he types of treatment that are commonly prescribed for bipolar disorder include: 1  Mood stabilizers. 2  Older medications, such as lithium, which are reliable and well-tolerated by most. 3  Once the first-line treatment for bipolar disorder, they have largely been supplanted by atypical antipsychotics. 4  Atypical antipsychotics.
the time it commenced operation.4 The average age of the US coal fleet is over 30 years, with up to one-third of the units over 50 years old in some regions. Figure 1-2 shows the ages of US fossil-fuel generation by ten-year increments, reflecting that approximately 500 gigawatts (GW) of total
Coal-fired generation units across the U.S. are an average age of 37 years old, while the average retirement age since 1999 is 48 years. Coal units are not the only fuel type approaching typical retirement age, with natural gas steam turbine (NGST) units possessing the second-oldest weighted average age. The capacity-weighted average age for the nationâs 513 operating NGST units is 45 years, which places many of these units above the typical retirement age since 1999 of 43 years.