The Vicious Cycle Of Psychiatric Disorders and COVID

Psychiatric disorder and COVID infection can be a vicious cycle, one causing the other.

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 […]

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IV Ketamine Maintenance Infusions: How Many? How Frequently?

This girl is depressed but IV Ketamine maintenance infusions may help her recover.

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 […]

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Two Big Causes for Dread Today: The Vote and Second Surge of Coronavirus

Dread can take over your mind with this election on steroids.mind with `

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 […]

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Safety of IV Ketamine – What Do We Know About Repeated Infusions?

What is the safety of IV ketamine treatment? Can it restore your reward in life?

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 […]

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Men Who Seek Help for Their Mental Health are Leaders

Masculine men seek help for mental heath which shows their leadership.

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 […]

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Recognize and Identify Depression and Seek Treatment

Recognize and identify depression symptoms with your friends and family so you can seek treatment.

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 […]

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Bipolar Mixed States: The Doctor Who Diagnosed It in the 12th Century

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 […]

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Does Problematic Drinking Follow You Around Damaging Your Credibility?

Problematic drinking follows you and can damage your credibility.

New study reveals extensive genetic links not only to alcohol use disorder, but also problematic drinking without physical dependence Brandon caught his breath and stopped.  He looked around him.  Where am I … and how did I get here? He was surrounded in pitch blackness. Couldn’t see a street light, not even moonlight. He realized […]

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Prepare Your Family to Respond to the Risk of Adolescent Suicide

Risk for adolescent suicide is 100 times that of the general population.

September is National Suicide Prevention Month And Adolescents Have the Highest Risk So let’s look at adolescent suicidal behavior. If you have an adolescent in your family, you may not be able to even imagine your child contemplating suicide. Or, if your child visits a psychiatrist regularly for a disorder, you may worry that he […]

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