Practices

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Medication and how it works Longer In a change Clear all

How long you have · Longer

A minute 2 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 8 Longer 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 2 Me 2

On your own, or with someone

Both of us together 1 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Medication and how it works

Systems for daily life 4 When everything feels flat 3 What ADHD actually is 2 Being seen and judged 2 Medication and how it works 2 What anger actually is 1 When you use something to cope 1 Equanimity and perspective 1 Get started 1 Getting assessed and diagnosed 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Panic and the body 1 Your sense of time 1 Shame and stigma 1 Use your strengths 1 The cost of avoiding 1 Your nervous system 1

When · In a change

Any ordinary day 7 In a change 2 Under stress 2

Finding the dose is a search rather than a calculation. It goes up in small steps until either the effect you want turns up, or the side effects get annoying enough that you come back down a step and settle there.

There is no way to work the right dose out from body weight or from how bad things look, which surprises people who expect medicine to be more exact…

LongerMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5

One of the founding figures of biological psychiatry summed the whole business up as some medicine helping some people at some doses some of the time. Knowing that before you start makes the first disappointment much easier to survive.

Most people need more than one adjustment: the dose, then the timing, sometimes the drug itself. Go in expecting the first prescription to be the…

LongerMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5

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