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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.
If the worst part of low mood is that your thinking has gone foggy, say so specifically. Concentration can be treated as a target of its own rather than as something that will tidy itself up later.
Depression and attention problems overlap enough that the fog often gets filed under whichever label arrived first. Naming it separately gives you…
Heaviness in the body, aching, and a tiredness that sleep does not touch are part of low mood. They are not a separate complaint to raise another time.
There is a group of antidepressants that add a second action aimed partly at these bodily symptoms, which is one reason a prescriber may lean that…
Before deciding a medicine did not work, check that it was taken at a dose and for a length of time that could have worked.
Venlafaxine is the standard example. At low doses it behaves much like a plain SSRI, and the second mechanism people choose it for only comes in…
Raising a dose does not simply raise the benefit. It raises everything the drug does, including the parts nobody was asking for.
As the amount climbs, a medicine begins touching things it barely touched before, which is why new side effects can appear at a higher dose of…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
A newer version of a familiar medicine is usually a tidier version rather than a leap, and tidier is still worth something.
Desvenlafaxine is venlafaxine after the liver has done its work, given directly. The point of that is fewer differences between people who process…