Innovative Psychiatry
Wonder how to help someone with OCD? Think about what your friend with OCD needs from you… Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD, is a condition where intrusive thoughts occur in your mind over and over again. You don’t want to have these thoughts or ideas…but you can’t stop them by sheer will. To make it […]
Holidays with Depressed Family … Not Easy Are you enjoying this holiday season…? This time of shopping, music, winter hats and gloves… hot chocolate and marshmallows. Sounds like a Christmas carol, doesn’t it…? On the other hand, there’s another side to the holidays, isn’t there? Is setting up the tree, and unwrapping all your ornaments, something […]
What Is Anxiety, and How Do You Treat It? People talk about depression, talk about PTSD, and about bipolar disorder. But how do you talk about anxiety? How do you know if you have anxiety, and how do you find anxiety treatment that won’t make you sleepy so you can do things without being tired…or […]
Maybe you’ve heard the buzz. Ketamine for depression is in the headlines, the journals, and the chatter at Starbucks. If you or someone you love wrestles with the exhausting symptoms of depression, you’ve likely heard about it. Or maybe you haven’t. Either way, it’s the biggest news in psychiatry these days, and seems to be […]
Really?? Can Inflammation Cause Suicide…? Or Suicidal Thoughts? Maybe you’ve just reached the end of your rope. The long dark days, the despair of watching everything always go wrong, the deterioration of your relationships, the exhaustion and inability to think well enough to do your job…and that feeling that you despise yourself. Loss of self-respect […]
There’s No PTSD and Depression Treatment Like This Treatment: IV Ketamine Do sudden noises make you jump and feel like your heart just stopped? If someone pats you on the back while saying hello, does it take everything inside you to keep from beating them to the ground? Do you find yourself on edge, feeling […]
Paternal Postpartum Depression In the last ten years, we’ve heard more and more about postpartum depression. Celebrities like Brooke Shields, Drew Barrymore, and Gwyneth Paltrow have stepped up to speak out about their own struggles with it. But, as much as we talk about postpartum depression in mothers, very little is mentioned about the same […]
Does depression run families? I didn’t ask if it runs in families. Does it run your family? Well, let me ask you this. Do you love someone who’s depressed … ? I mean really depressed. Someone who’s been withdrawn, listless, drained, and nervous for months — or years… Maybe you hear how they wish they […]
Rachel Cassandra Sep 29 2017, 5:00am “I should be doing ketamine alone, at home, in my bed, listening to Chopin. That’s how it should be used.” Jack razors out 215 mg of white powder onto a mirror and snorts the pile using a rolled up “dollar” with his own face on it—an artifact left over […]
Get High and Kick Depression? Two birds – one stone, right? If you’re in the practice of using ketamine to get high and kick depression at the same time, you better take a step back. Let’s talk about it. The recent Time magazine article that touted ketamine as a hallucinogenic antidepressant highlighted the practice by […]