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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.
Most antidepressants share a family resemblance. Bupropion does not, so much of what you have read about the others simply does not apply to it.
It works on the systems carrying drive and alertness rather than on serotonin, which is why its effects, wanted and unwanted, sit at an angle to the…
A medicine that lifts drive is not the same as one that settles anxiety, and for some people the energising kind makes the worry louder.
Bupropion is the clearest example: often good for flatness and lack of motivation, often unhelpful on its own when anxiety and a racing, sleepless…
If you know something about a person's history that the prescriber may not, say it. A past eating disorder or a single seizure can change what is safe to prescribe.
Bupropion lowers the seizure threshold, and in someone who is purging, restricting or very underweight that risk climbs meaningfully. The therapist…
When the same medicine keeps turning up for unrelated problems, that usually means one action touches all of them. It does not mean somebody has found a cure for everything.
Bupropion appears in depression, in stopping smoking, in a weight loss combination and sometimes in attention problems, because the system it works…
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.