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4 practicesArea · Low mood and hard feelings
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When · Coming and going
If telling your doctor or midwife what you are using feels impossible, you can ask someone you already trust to pass it on for you, with your permission and in your words.
People often stay quiet with the very clinician who could help, because saying it out loud feels heavier than the problem does. Handing the message…
Match the tablet to the person rather than to the diagnosis. For someone flattened and slowed who has said clearly that they will not accept sexual side effects, paroxetine is close to the worst choice available.
It is the most sedating in the class, the least activating, and carries a high risk of exactly the effect they ruled out, with weight gain and the…
If you are the therapist, hand the prescriber the profile and leave them the pick. What you hold that they do not is what this person is like across a week, and what they will absolutely not tolerate.
So write those two things down and send them: the presentation, in plain description rather than jargon, and the non-negotiables. Not a drug name.…
If a treatment reliably produces strange sensations, describe them beforehand. Expected strangeness is far easier to sit through than strangeness that arrives unannounced.
With esketamine, feeling oddly detached from your body or the room is the drug doing what it does, not a sign of harm, and it usually clears within a…
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.