First rule of managing stress: Learn to manage your life around it.
Second rule of managing stress: Don't expect any medication or recovery tool to bail you out if you fail to abide by the first rule.
Let me briefly recap:
Modern life has a way of turning even healthy individuals into DSM-IV basket cases. But our population is particularly vulnerable. Our brains overload a lot quicker and take a longer time resetting to normal than our more resilient neighbors. Next thing, we're not coping.
Depress...
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