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Low mood and hard feelings
Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.
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3 practicesHow long you have
Approach · Medical and treatment
When · Under stress
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…
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…
Six to eight weeks is what an antidepressant needs before it can be judged. The first fortnight will mostly tell you about side effects.
The transporter is blocked within hours, so the delay belongs to slower changes further down the line. In practice that means picking a date four to…