Timing is everything for many things in life — including when to take medication like metformin, sold under the brand names Glucophage, Fortamet, Riomet, and Glumetza.
So, when’s the best time to take metformin? Well, there’s no magic time, but you should take metformin at the same time each day and with food to avoid gastrointestinal side effects. If you’re taking extended-release metformin tablets, take them with your evening meal.
Read on for more details on the best time of day to take metformin and how to take it
We all experience anxiety. It is a natural response when we think events or experiences in our environment are threatening, uncertain or challenging. Anxiety can be helpful at times because it keeps us alert and focused, but when the anxiety response persists, it is no longer adaptive. It just does not ruin ourselves mentally but affects our physical and relation aspects as well. With this, we list some of the strategies that will hopefully provide relief during anxiety attacks.
Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is sometimes used interchangeably with sociopathy, though they’re not quite the same. Sociopathy is itself a version of APD that differs from psychopathy, which is also an antisocial personality disorder. As Healthline explains, people with high-function APD can usually do typical “everyday” activities, like work or maintain a marriage. While the DSM-5 doesn’t use “high-” or “low-functioning” to describe people with antisocial personality disorder, people considered to have a lower-functioning APD aren’t quite as polished or polite when masking the manipulation that is key to the disorder. Here are the symptoms of APD, per the Mayo Clinic:
One of the healthiest things you can do for yourself, especially during this turbulent time in history, is to take up the practice of journaling. This isn’t a “Dear Diary, today I, Pam Beesly, fell in love with Jim in sales,” type of thing, but a deep look into yourself, what inspires you, what moves you, what scares you, and how you can grow. Of course, no one is saying you can’t start each journal entry with “Dear Diary” or even “Dear Timothée Chalamet,” for that matter — but using journal prompts can help you reap the biggest benefits of a regular writing habit.