Innovative Psychiatry
December is National Stress-Free Family Holiday Month. Don’t Laugh. It really is… OK, yes, I get it. It’s the holidays. In a pandemic. COVID-19 spread is skyrocketing. Finances are a struggle and it’s the holidays. Depression can peak this time of year. Everybody needs something and to go somewhere. And don’t forget Personal Protective Equipment. Did […]
We’ll never forget 2020. For the COVID-19 pandemic, for the social and political turmoil, for the economic struggles and adjustments that have accompanied all of it. And we’ll never forget the Thanksgiving Day 2020 holiday when people stayed home, meals attended by only a few, while watching the graphs of COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths […]
Sam wasn’t sleeping enough. As in, not much at all. She just couldn’t drop off. But even if she did she’d wake right back up. Day after day, week after week. She’s done everything she knows to do. And she has to work, so she just has to get by. Still, it scares her because […]
Charlene could not remember a time when she wasn’t depressed. A series of tragedies in her family along with psychiatric disorders in her relatives, all seemed to lead to her own depression. Antidepressants she’d taken for years seemed to do very little. Regardless of dosage or ration, she’d long ago lost hope that she’d every […]
Disasters can come in many forms… barring natural disasters like earthquakes or floods… political disaster and a rising pandemic sound pretty daunting. There’s the anxiety that accompanies voting tomorrow, and hopefully you’ve had the opportunity to vote early and avoid the big final voting day… Then add to that the OUTCOME of the vote the […]
A 21st Century Approach to A Safe Ketamine Treatment Environment For You We’re always on the leading edge. And we’ve taken your safety a step further as we lead the way in providing the safest possible clinical setting for ketamine treatments: IV, IM, IN, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. We’ve talked about the safety of IV and […]
Currently, with the growing use of IV or IM ketamine treatment for treatment resistant depression and bipolar depression, and years of clinical evidence to draw from, some people wonder if repeated use can cause adverse effects. And while there is irrefutable evidence of serious adverse conditions among those who have used ketamine on the street […]
Reaching Out for Help — and Treatment — Is the Bravest and Healthiest Way to Make Your Life Count We’ve talked before about stigma, and the fear you can have of doing or saying anything that would attach a stigma to you. Racism is in the news often in these times. It seems that being […]
October is National Depression Awareness Month and October 8 is Depression Screening Day 40 million US adults struggle with depression and/or anxiety. But not everyone who struggles recognizes they even have an identifiable or treatable condition, or that they need treatment. That’s why there are tools that you can use to help identify the symptoms […]
If you suffer from mania, you’ve also experienced the transition that leads to it. Someone identified that transition emotion over a thousand years ago. Surprising? Here we are in the 21st century, with all the technology and neuroscience we’ve discovered at our fingertips, and we still face that same emotion. And it often plays a […]