Innovative Psychiatry
Ask yourself…”Do you prefer good times…or interesting times…?” We’ve talked about how to recover after a crisis or trauma so you can get back up. Let’s take another step. Let’s talk about making use of your experiences so you can — and will — move forward. First and foremost, like letting go of the memories […]
June has been National PTSD Awareness Month. And June is nearly over. But PTSD awareness shouldn’t end with June. If you have PTSD, it can go on day after day…after day. Something terrible happened. Over time, it seemed you slowly got past it. You hardly thought about it anymore. Then, in a split second, you’re […]
Resilience – The power to bounce back emotionally after a major disappointment or event. Here we are. COVID cases have dropped dramatically…right along with COVID deaths. We’re slowly transitioning from the pandemic to what we hope will be post-pandemic. Slowly over time. It won’t be a one day change, but an advancing progressive adjustment to […]
We’ve talked about ketamine’s rapid antidepressant effects. Last month we talked about the role of dissociation in ketamine’s antidepressant benefits. Neuroscientists are studying ketamine to find out WHY it provides such rapid antidepressant results. They’re hoping they can determine what exactly ketamine does in the brain, and whether they can isolate that action from the […]
The Big Question Is dissociation needed? Is it necessary? Can you get better without it, or with “just a little bit” of dissociation? Does the kind of dissociative experience you have during a ketamine infusion predict whether ketamine is going to work? Or how much it will help? …. or If it will help faster? […]
When you think about going to a gathering, walking into a room full of people, how do you feel? Tense…nervous…? People are getting vaccinated. It’s highly likely, if you’ve had both vaccine injections, that you may be invited to an July 4th gathering of friends and family who’ve also been vaccinated. Can you imagine? How […]
Grace had been depressed off and on since her she was a little girl. No one called it depression back then. She was shy, and her withdrawal was dismissed by others as just another of her odd behaviors. They thought she just got more “wound up” than some people. After she was grown and married, […]
We’re all weary of hearing about COVID and mask wearing precautions. Aren’t we? About the negative impact of isolation. And while we see improvement on the horizon through wide spread vaccinations, there are still imminent risks, and new cases as well as deaths every day. Those risks add to your daily stress in ways you […]
You may hear people say, “Antidepressants and other psych meds just don’t do anything…” Some people say, “…placebos work better…” Oh please. But why do they say that? Maybe their own experience with prescribed medicines was disappointing. So — of course — they’re disillusioned about these medicines. We get it. And we know that any given […]
Turns Out Winter 2021 Hasn’t Run Out of Stressors to Throw at You Yet… People like you have been finding ways to adapt and endure this historical and very strange year. Never think that major factors in society, and in science, and in government, have no effect on you and your personal life. In fact, […]