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Ask what symptom you are aiming at rather than what the diagnosis is called. Nothing anyone takes recognises a category; it acts on whatever is happening in the body.
In practice that means naming the target out loud before anything is started or changed: the surges that come from nowhere, the sleeplessness, the…
Anxiety comes in two rough families. Fear is the sudden bodily kind that arrives in a rush, and worry is the slow kind that circles and will not settle.
The distinction earns its place because the two behave differently. Fear peaks and passes and shows up in the heart and the breath, while worry sits…
Most people are a mixture rather than a clean example of one thing. If treatment has taken the edge off one part and left another standing, that is usually two problems, not one failure.
Someone whose panic has settled but who still spends every evening rehearsing tomorrow has had the fear part treated and the worry part left alone.…
Physical dependence on a sedative can build while you are taking it exactly as prescribed. Nothing has gone wrong with you and nobody has misused anything.
Regulators strengthened the warnings across this whole class of medicines to say so plainly, including that withdrawal can be drawn out. Knowing it…
The number worth watching is not the dose but the direction. A dose that keeps creeping upward says something that a steady one does not.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
You are often the person who sees this, because you hear about it in passing across months while the prescriber sees someone twice a year. Note it…