People living with mental illness are often left out of the loop when it comes to understanding how exactly medications work.
I\'ve pulled together What I\'ve learned in my training as a nurse and (former) pharmacist and years of clinical experience, added in my personal perspective from having taken many of these medications, and distilled it down to the essential elements you need to know to take charge of your own health and illness..
Are you having weight gain from your medication? You\'ll find out why, and What other medications might be less likely to have the same side effect.
You\'ll learn why one medication in a particular class might be a better fit for you than another.
It\'s everything you didn\'t realize you wanted to know about medications! The book begins with the essentials of pharmacology and moves on to cover all the major classes of psychiatric medications.
This book will explain pharmacology in a simplified way to help you understand the effects, both positive and negative, of Psych meds, and why these effects occur.
People living with mental illness are often left out of the loop when it comes to understanding how exactly medications work
