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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.

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Who it is written for
A practitioner 3Someone I care about 1Me 1
Where you are right now · Getting ready for something
Coping, mostly 4Getting ready for something 3
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
Involves someone else 3On my own 1
Theme · When everything feels flat
Medication and how it works 19Treatment and medication 10Systems for daily life 8Facing it a step at a time 7The cost of avoiding 5Cool the body first 5The moment before you snap 5Food, caffeine and fuel 4When everything feels flat 3Your sense of time 3Making it stick 3Choosing your response 3Breathing 3Moving your body 3Treatment and medication 2Feelings and focus 2Tolerate distress 2What anger actually is 2What ADHD actually is 1Grounding and settling 1Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Get started 1Feeling from the inside 1Equanimity and perspective 1Living with uncertainty 1Panic and the body 1Posture and how you carry yourself 1Practising under provocation 1Remembering to do it 1Rest and pacing 1Screens and attention 1Shame and stigma 1Structure and routine 1Being seen and judged 1Exercise, food and other supports 1

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…

Five minutesWhen everything feels flatMedical and treatmentQur’an 41:39

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.…

Five minutesWhen everything feels flatMedical and treatmentQur’an 16:127

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…

Five minutesWhen everything feels flatMedical and treatmentQur’an 6:125

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