Anxiety Disorder but You Are Hooked On Your Anxiety Medication
Such a pretty spider. The fear of spiders is called Arachnophobia and, if you have a strong fear that interferes with your daily...
One Person's Description of Schizophrenia's Visual Hallucinations
One of the most informative experiences in psychotherapy I have had was working with a person with schizophrenia who possessed an unusual...
CT Scans and Radiation: On-going Consequences for One Patient
In my past posts, I've described the exposure of one of my patients to the radiation from three CT Scans in the span of one-year and...
A Challenge with the Placebo Effect in Psychotherapy
The placebo effect is a treatment or ingested substance that the patient or person believes will make him/her well, when in fact the...
An Analogy to Use When Working With Someone's Grief
Drawn from my clinical experiences working with grieving people, I've surmised that our grief often comes from our difficulty reconciling...
One Activity To Do When Someone Is Grieving
Modern society and the quick-fix culture pushes the idea of the magic pill to solve the problem of living a life. The assumption that a...
Anti-depressants and Pregnancy: Seems There Is A Change In Its Practice.
It has been a long-standing practice to stop taking anti-depressants while pregnant because of the risk for the developing fetus. The...
Dr. Strangedrug (or How I Learned to Spot Medication Effects)
One problem that keeps coming up like Bugs Bunny emerging from a hole away from Albuquerque, feeling perplexed. It's the problem of...
What Is The Radiation Risk From So Many CT Scans Being Performed In Such Short Time Frames?
This blog post will be short. It comes on the heels of three of my patients who have participated in more than one Computed Tomography...
True Professionalism: Fortify Your Insight and Self-Awareness
With everything that has come up because of the #MeToo movement, a problem I see with the male identity is a reluctance or resistance in...
