Innovative Psychiatry
Young people suffering from treatment-resistant depression (TRD) showed a significant reduction of their symptoms after being administered ketamine injections, according to a study published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. Researchers from the University of Minnesota (UM) and the nonprofit Mayo Clinic found that ketamine caused an average decrease of 42 percent on the Children’s […]
Trauma: Don’t Beat Yourself Up – Allow Your Loved Ones to Lift You UP Have you been through something traumatic …? Maybe you’re a combat veteran, a first responder, or a victim of severe domestic abuse. It might have been a car wreck, or the unexpected sudden loss of someone you love. Fixed beliefs […]
You Can Know if You Suffer From Bipolar II Disorder and What You and Your Doctor Can Do About It Clara is a 27-year-old artist whose talent has opened opportunities for her she never dreamed possible. She’s published books of her original poetry and children’s stories she wrote and illustrated herself. She paints watercolors of […]
Neuro Neuroscience Discoveries Show Inflammation Can Cause Depression – Especially If You Experienced Severe Stress in Early Childhood Lillian was in second grade when her mom went to work full-time. For the first time in her life, she would get off the school bus and walk down the street to her house, pull out her […]
Anxiety and Panic Disorder – A Tormenting Presence “Am I going to die? I feel like I’m dying…” “No, you’re going to get through this. You’re having a panic attack. Just keep looking in my eyes and holding my hand. These feelings are going to pass in a few minutes. Hold on…” The emergency department […]
Psychiatric Disorders and Creativity: Is there a link? Think about it. Vincent Van Gogh. Virginia Woolf. Michelangelo. Beethoven. Robin Williams. Ernest Hemingway. Carrie Fisher. Anthony Bourdain. Creative Genius. There are hundreds, probably thousands more, who fit right in with this good company. Maybe you do, too. Take John Nash, the Nobel prize-winning mathematician […]
Ketamine Boost Infusions Combined with Infrastructure Changes May Help You Sustain Remission What do you do when the symptoms return? You spent years in that condition. The sadness, the hopelessness…the numbness. That terrible shame. Unable to participate. Shut down. Withdrawn. Or, maybe the symptoms were reactions to sudden noises…smells…darkness… or touch. They may even have […]
IV Ketamine is a Most Extraordinary Medicine Here Are Some Ways to Hold On to Its Benefits This ONE medicine can relieve a wide array of psychiatric disorders. Remission by ketamine treatment is at center stage of the mental health world. The same medicine that lifts depression and restores creativity, initiative, and hope, also stops suicidal thinking […]
Johnson & Johnson and Allergan are now testing new drugs for depression that are based on ketamine. There are still safety concerns. Ketamine, a powerful anesthetic drug, is inspiring scientists and doctors to rethink how we treat depression.Now, two major pharmaceutical companies, Johnson & Johnson and Allergan, are making strides in developing drugs based on […]
The Heartbreak of Suicide – What Can We Do? Each day last week,122 people in the United States took their lives by suicide. We want to talk about Kate Spade … and you. And how the heartbreak of suicide is stealing our loved ones. And what we can do to change that. By now, most of […]