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With many of these medicines the unpleasant part turns up on day one and the good part takes weeks. Knowing that in advance is most of what carries people across the gap.
The first fortnight can feel like a bad bargain, because it is one: you pay now for something that arrives later. Put a date in the diary two to four…
Treat the first fortnight as a stretch that needs contact rather than silence. Say plainly that things may feel worse before they feel better, and arrange to hear from the person during that window instead of after it.
This is when most people quietly stop. Somebody who has been warned experiences a rough two weeks as expected; somebody who has not experiences it as…
If you learn one thing about how these medicines work, learn the junction between two nerve cells. Nearly every drug in this field acts at one of a handful of points in that small space.
It saves a great deal of memorising. Once you can picture a message being released, landing, and then being cleared away, most explanations turn out…
Mechanism is a moving thing, so it is easier to watch than to read. A university made animation of what happens at the junction will teach you more in ten minutes than a page of description.
Prefer something made by a university or a public body over whatever a search puts at the top, since much of what is written about these drugs is…
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