Innovative Psychiatry
Suicidal Thoughts…? “Nah, she’s not going to kill herself. She’s too afraid of pain.” “He’ll never follow through…he just keeps threatening… he’s just looking for attention…” …“I’m so shocked he did this. I had no idea he was thinking about suicide… I feel so bad…” If you’re depressed, or you know someone who is, your […]
So maybe you’ve heard of Blue Monday…? January 15, the saddest day of the year. This 13 year old hoax needs a little straightening out. See if you agree. Blue Monday? What does that have to do with psychiatry? Pretty much nothing … but let me explain. In 2005, a guy named Dr. Cliff Arnall in […]
Are You a Depressed College Student? Who sometimes just can’t go to class? … or do your work? Sometimes you can’t bring yourself to write the paper … or even do the reading. If last semester was awful, you hope this one will be better. That you’ll get up. Get cleaned up. Eat some decent […]
Ketamine, known mostly as a party drug, has assumed a new identity in recent years—as a promising antidepressant. And, though research is still under way, it seems to reduce symptoms of depression very quickly, and in people who haven’t been helped by traditional antidepressants. Now, a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry finds that for depressed people […]
Neuroscience breakthroughs like…IV ketamine treatment..? Exactly. 2018 lies before us, like a valley that spreads to the horizon. And while it’s impossible to access the future, you can move forward knowing that each “today” you live has promise that was unheard of until recently. Especially if you suffer from untreated or treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, bipolar […]
Importance Several studies now provide evidence of ketamine hydrochloride’s ability to produce rapid and robust antidepressant effects in patients with mood and anxiety disorders that were previously resistant to treatment. Despite the relatively small sample sizes, lack of longer-term data on efficacy, and limited data on safety provided by these studies, they have led to increased […]
Christmas Holidays…Hanukkah …. a season of Joy? The song says this is the most wonderful time of the year, and for so many children, it is…but for others, not so much. It’s also a treasured time for many adults…but not all. And while there’s no magic way to go through some step-by-step plan to snap […]
Yes. Let’s be really clear. Because nothing seems really clear if you’re someone who just doesn’t want to go … Go? Yes, who doesn’t want to … or can’t just easily … go. To work. To class. A meeting. That job interview. Even out for coffee. Or Shopping. There are a thousand reasons you might […]
2017 Has Changed the Way We Could Treat Depression, Alzheimer’s, Cancer and AIDS Sandhya Raghavan | Updated: December 15, 2017 5:51 am Like its predecessor, 2017 has also been blamed for being the worst year ever, collectively by the internet. But when you look at some of the medical milestones of the year 2017, you’d […]
Megan Brooks December 13, 2017 A subanesthetic intravenous infusion of ketamine can rapidly reduce suicidal ideation in patients with major depression, and the clinical improvement is maintained 6 weeks later, results of a randomized controlled study suggest. This study is “the most definitive demonstration so far of a clinically meaningful reduction in suicidal ideation within 24 hours […]