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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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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…
When a feeling is genuinely unbearable, escaping it is the only regulator you have, so the drinking or the shutting down is doing a job. Build up what you can bear and the job disappears.
It helps to stop asking why you keep reaching for the thing and start asking what state you were in just before you reached. Usually it is a…