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Medication
Pharmacological treatments for psychiatric conditions and the evidence base behind them.
25 articles tagged Medication
Emotional Lability: When Feelings Switch Fast
Emotional lability means feelings that arrive fast, land hard and pass quickly. It is a symptom rather than a diagnosis, and what it points at is worth knowing.
ADHD and Perimenopause: Why Symptoms Worsen
Oestrogen supports the dopamine systems ADHD already taxes, so as it falls and swings in perimenopause, coping strategies that held for decades stop working.
ADHD and Bipolar Disorder: Telling Them Apart
ADHD and bipolar disorder overlap on distractibility, restlessness and impulsivity. The thing that separates them is not the symptom list, it is the timescale.
ADHD Brain vs Neurotypical Brain: The Evidence
The differences are real, small on average and heavily overlapping, which is why no brain scan can diagnose ADHD. What the evidence supports, and what does not.
ADHD in Adults: The Signs That Get Missed
What ADHD actually looks like in adults, why it is so often missed in women and high achievers, how to tell it apart from anxiety, and where to start now.
ADHD Medication Explained: What to Expect
Medication for ADHD follows an order rather than a single choice, and finding the right dose takes weeks by design. Knowing that prevents most early quitting.
ADHD Across the Lifespan: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Support
A 2026 overview of ADHD: how it presents in children and adults, how it is diagnosed, which treatments hold up under current evidence, and which do not.
Bipolar 1 vs Bipolar 2: The Difference, and the Myth
The dividing line is mania versus hypomania, not severity. Bipolar II is widely called the milder one, and the long-term data does not support that reading.
Bipolar Disorder and Anger: Why It Happens
Irritability is a recognised feature of bipolar disorder, not a character flaw. A manic episode can present as fury instead of euphoria, and that gets missed.
Bipolar and Sleep: The Earliest Warning There Is
Sleep change is the most commonly reported early sign of a manic episode. Whether it causes one or merely announces one is a genuinely unsettled question.
Hypomania: The Episode Nobody Comes In For
Hypomania often feels like finally being well, so people seek help for the depression and never mention it. That gap is why diagnosis so often takes years.
Bipolar vs BPD: How the Two Are Told Apart
Both involve mood that moves, so the two get confused constantly. What separates them is not intensity but how long the shifts last and what sets them off.
Bipolar Disorder: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
A 2026 overview of bipolar disorder: how mania, hypomania and depression present, what causes it, how it is diagnosed, and which treatments work best.
What Causes Bipolar Disorder? Signs and Risk Factors
What causes bipolar disorder? The genetic, brain and environmental risk factors behind it, what raises the odds of an episode, and when you should seek help.
Mixed Features in Bipolar: Up and Down at Once
Feeling wired and hopeless in the same hour is not a contradiction or a fast mood swing. It is a recognised pattern, and it changes what treatment is safe.
Anhedonia: When Nothing Feels Good Any More
Losing pleasure is a core part of depression and the part antidepressants treat least reliably. Naming it at an appointment changes what you get offered.
Depression Subtypes: Dysthymia vs Major Depression
Persistent and major depression are different diagnoses with different courses. Here is how clinicians tell them apart, and why the split changes treatment.
Dysthymia vs Major Depression: Duration, Not Pain
Persistent depressive disorder lasts at least two years and gets mistaken for personality. Major depression arrives in episodes. Duration is the real split.
High-Functioning Depression: Why the Term Delays Help
Nobody is diagnosed with high-functioning depression, because it is not a diagnosis. The phrase is useful for recognition and costly as a reason to wait.
Emotional Numbness: Six Reasons You Feel Nothing
Feeling emotionally numb is a symptom with several causes, and each points at different help. How to tell depression, trauma, burnout and medication apart.
Depression: Symptoms, Causes, and Evidence-Based Treatments
A 2026 overview of depression: how it is diagnosed, what actually causes it, which treatments work, and what to do when the first one does not help you.
New Antidepressants: What Is Changing and What to Know
New antidepressants explained: how depression treatment is changing, how newer options differ from SSRIs, and exactly what to talk through with your doctor.
Treatment-Resistant Depression: What Actually Works in 2026
If two antidepressants have not worked, here are the 2026 options with the best evidence behind them, from quetiapine and lithium to esketamine and psilocybin.
Seasonal Affective Disorder: What the Evidence Supports
Winter depression is real, and the treatment everyone recommends rests on far weaker evidence than you would guess. NICE says to tell people so outright.
OCD: Symptoms, Causes, and Evidence-Based Treatment
A 2026 guide to obsessive-compulsive disorder: what it really is beyond the stereotypes, how it is diagnosed, and which treatments have the best evidence.