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How To Discontinue Medication
When medications have assisted a patient through an emotional crisis or resolved a chronic mood disorder and the patient has demonstrated stability for a reasonable period of time, a consultation will be in order to discuss discontinuing medication. We first want to...
What Our First Doctor-Patient Interview Is Like
Sometimes, if people have never sought out a "head doctor," there's some reluctance and anxiety about the initial meeting. I've heard plenty of rumors as to how other doctors conduct their first interviews with clients, but I'd like to share with you how my first...
Where Black Box Warnings Go Wrong for Bipolar Disorder
Lately, the media has given a lot of attention to "Black Box Warnings" for increased risk of suicide for patients under 18 years of age to mid-20s who are prescribed psychotropic medications. For every highly publicized individual instance of a radically adverse...
Panic Disorder Affects Mind and Body
At least one out of every 75 people suffers from Panic Disorder, which is something of a subset of a number of Anxiety Disorders. Anxiety Disorders involve processes that are both mental and physical, and create problems that are both mental and physical. One reason...
Treating Children Correctly in a Doctor’s Office
Children are typically ignored in our everyday adult lives of social interactions and business dealings. It is much easier to allow the parents to describe the symptoms and explain what is going on with their son or daughter, but if we as physicians fail to personally...
When You Have Multiple Symptoms
In traditional medicine, it's sometimes easier to focus on the primary (or only) complaint when patients come in. Granted, some patients who see me do have just one primary issue or complaint, and that's what I call the beginning of the rabbit hole. In most cases, if...
Pilot Andreas Lubitz: When Does Depression Become Suicidal?
About a week ago, the world watched, horrified, when news broke that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew his 149 passengers and fellow staff to their deaths in the French Alps. As news of his life began to filter through, we were introduced to a...
Non-addictive medications help relieve depression, other symptoms
From Dr. Paul Corona's book, Healing the Mind and Body, Volume 3 We're so fortunate to live in a time when many excellent medications are widely available to relieve depression and other symptoms. In one generation, the treatment of anxiety and depression has moved...
The Dreaded “D” Word – Depression & Relieving Depression
Depression is a subject few people care to discuss. Many people have an aversion to depression because they equate it with defeatism, a weak self-image, lack of will power and the sissy's response to life's challenges. Still others fear that it can invade at...
The Real Truth of Psychosomatic Conditions
There is a prejudice in our culture that becomes apparent when particular words are introduced to a conversation … "He's seeing a psychiatrist." … "She's seeing a shrink" Another word that often reveals our prejudice is "psychosomatic," which conjures images of people...
