Innovative Psychiatry
COVID-19 – Growing number of people suffer from anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts who’ve never faced mental health issues before. We’ve talked about it before, but the numbers are growing. Quarantine, masks and gloves, working from home, kids schooling at home, social distancing, Zoom meetings. It’s not just the change in routine, it’s the feeling […]
Ketamine continues to move forward. This NMDA receptor antagonist, ketamine, was studied in treatment of major psychiatric disorders during the first decade of 2020. Certainly, as these studies galvanized physicians to offer ketamine treatment in their offices, its use has become more and more widespread, the studies continue, and ketamine as a breakthrough treatment for […]
Isolation and anxiety are a recipe for substance abuse and mental illness. A new study predicts 75,000 “deaths of despair.” By Cynthia Koons, Riley Griffin, and Emma Court May 7, 2020, 9:14 PM PDT The isolation, grief and economic hardship related to Covid-19 are creating a mental health crisis in the U.S. that researchers warn could make the already-rising suicide […]
School is starting for the 2020-21 school year, whether remotely or on campus. Never before have these students started a new school year during a pandemic. It’s been over 100 years since the last one, and few of those students are still alive. But these students, yours and mine, are pioneers now. School’s starting, how’s […]
Esketamine, the first new method to treat depression in 25 years, isgaining credibility. Last year, Janssen Pharmaceutical’s ketaminebaseddrug was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration(FDA) to treat patients with treatment-resistant depression. And onAug. 3, the FDA followed up with a second approval, allowing doctorsto prescribe the tranquilizing drug to patients experiencing suicidalideation. But […]
If you know someone with anorexia nervosa, you know how chronic… dangerous… and life-threatening it can be. I bet you didn’t know it could go into full remission. This is the story of a novel idea, a brand new course of treatment, an innovative treatment procedure, and a protocol that was born out of love. […]
Have you avoided treatment fearing it would subdue your talent? This is a very real concern for some intelligent, talented people who suffer from certain disorders. The idea that suffering yields brilliant satire, beautiful music, heartbreaking poetry, and dazzling art that enrich mankind. It’s been a subject of controversy for eons. But is it true? […]
“The second wave of the coronavirus has begun,” they tell us. They say we’re in it now, and this will be worse than the first. How do you respond to announcements like this…with fear? Terror? Maybe anger? Some will… but you do have a choice. You don’t have to be the victim of your emotions. […]
As tough as these times have been, there have been some bright spots. In fact, some people who have suffered terribly from symptoms of their disorders are actually stabilizing and improving. Feeling as though they’re less “disordered” and almost more normal than they’ve felt before. Can you imagine? In fact, as much as we’ve struggled with […]
You see them everywhere… t-shirts proclaiming “In a world where you can be anything…be kind.” Does that make you roll your eyes? Or does it affirm to you to focus on the way of living that can help us all get through these difficult times? Because in times like these, with upheaval, disruption from a […]