Innovative Psychiatry
Compounds and methods for treating severe psychiatric disorders are getting better and better… Charlie sank into a chair in utter discouragement, as she realized she had awakened again, after hoping as she went to sleep that this would be her last night. Her last time to breathe. Night after night she prayed to die in […]
Happy New Year!! The big silver ball falls tonight to celebrate the birth of 2019. Let’s celebrate the unprecedented, transforming, and ever-accelerating advances in psychiatric treatment this year and the neuroscience that backs it up. Celebrate is the word. Because we’re so grateful to the courageous researchers around the beginning of the 21st century who […]
Ketamine and you are beacons of hope for someone you love The holiday season is upon us…once again. The anticipation of gifts and family gatherings, great food and fun times runs rampant among the younger set, and is deeply appreciated by the older generation, as well. But if your family includes one or more members […]
What a year it’s been!! As this busy year creeps toward its end, it’s fun to look back on all we’ve accomplished in our hard work to help find more effective treatment for those who suffer with symptoms that don’t respond to traditional treatment. Since the early beginnings in my work as a psychiatrist, I’ve […]
An article published this past Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, in the New York Times Opinion section, asks about a possible remedy for suicidal thinking. Well researched, but not quite well enough. Keep reading… Author Moises Velasquez-Manoff explored the notion that maybe…just maybe…we can quell the epidemic rate of suicide. He points out that the suicide rate […]
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 […]
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 […]
Can you say PHENOMENAL??? Let’s hear it for Ketamine Treatment and Oxford!! I just returned from a history-making global conference focused on research and clinical evidence for ketamine for psychiatric disorders. Experts from nearly every continent spoke of their own data and evidence from this emerging field of the the science behind ketamine and the […]
Depression’s the Worst! It drains your energy, robs you of enjoyment of ANYTHING, isolates you and makes you feel like no one in the entire world cares. Makes you feel like you’re a burden on the people you know. Makes you feel achey and lethargic. Shuts down your brain so you can’t think. You can’t […]
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 […]