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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.
When your partner is afraid, do not minimize it or reassure it away. Ask what is making them feel unsafe.
To a fearful person, do not worry can feel like ridicule. Take the fear seriously and understand it.
Do not stay hidden. Tell your partner about your day, your worries, your inner world.
Hiding your reality to protect them keeps you strangers. Let them know you.
The chemistry story runs backwards from how it is usually told. Nobody found a low chemical and then built a drug. They noticed what certain drugs did to mood and reasoned back to what must have been missing.
Reserpine emptied out the monoamines and people became depressed. Iproniazid and imipramine raised them and mood lifted. Out of that came the account…
Depression is not one thing with one address. Fatigue, blank concentration, lost libido and the loss of pleasure do not all come from the same place, so it helps to name which one you most want moved.
This is why two people with the same diagnosis get offered different tablets. A flat, pleasureless presentation points one way, a fatigued and achey…
Ask why the tablets take weeks. That one question sorts the honest accounts of how they work from the tidy story about a chemical being low.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Four competing versions sit under the same umbrella: too little released, reuptake running too hard, too much broken down, or receptors that need an…