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Limitations common to BLT and antidepressant medication.
| 1. | Dose-dependent idiosyncratic side effects (e.g. BLT may cause mild headache, eyestrain, nausea or agitation). |
| 2. | Potential for manic overshoot or transition into hypomanic, manic, or mixed episodes reported to be comparable to the rates due to selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitors |
| 3. | New-onset suicidal ideation has been reported after initiation of BLT (Terman & Terman, 2005) and antidepressant medication. |
