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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Write the exact thing you are furious about on a paper plate, tape it to the wall, and throw wet cotton balls at it. It sounds childish, and it does more than swinging at nothing.
Half the good of it is in the writing. Vague anger has to become a sentence before it can go on the plate, and reading that sentence back usually…
The blockade is partial. Serotonin is not trapped in there forever: enzymes still break it down and the transporters that are not blocked carry on working.
That matters for accuracy and it matters for reassurance, because people do picture something flooding and stuck. It also explains why serotonin…
When someone says they react badly to normal doses of almost everything, take it as information about their body rather than as a personality trait.
Bodies differ in how fast they break a medicine down. Give two people the same dose and one of them may be holding far more of it for far longer,…
Whether a medicine works can turn on something as ordinary as taking it with food or moving it to bedtime.
Vilazodone is the clear case. On an empty stomach a good deal less of it is absorbed, and the nausea it can cause is easier to sit with overnight…
There is more about low mood and hard feelings than the practices: the low mood and hard feelings area has the themes and the courses too.
If a medicine leaves you wired, restless or with a pulse that will not settle, report it rather than tolerating it quietly.
The antidepressants that act on noradrenaline as well as serotonin can raise blood pressure and put nerves on edge, and with some of them that grows…