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Media Used Educates
Me: Jasmine, I’m so honored to collaborate with you on this important post juxtaposing the various ways media shapes stigma and your own testimony. Guest Post from Jasmine: I love old ads, Victorian,...
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NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Hello Friends, I’m enjoying this all too fast passing time at the APA annual meeting in Toronto. What I am most enjoying is the education, the community and connection with new and old friends, and the...
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The Perfect Doctor – Healthy With Disease
One of the difficulties we have in talking to psych patients is realized with the dawning truth that we are not curing anyone. Working in those conditions of not curing, you both, patient and...
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NPR interviews Kitty and Michael Dukakis
In an interview with Kitty and Michael Dukakis, journalist Katia Hauser explores the benefits and risks of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in treating depression. Kitty shares her first hand experience...
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The Sins of the Fathers, and Mental Health
“We know the Bible speaks of sins of the fathers passing to the 3rd and 4th generations while God imbues his kindness and mercy far beyond that to those who love him and keep his commandments.” Rosa...
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But I’m Not Someone Who Likes Taking Meds
Presley couldn’t breath. A truck just drove through his thorax. A monster-hand was closing around his heart. He couldn’t swallow well. Was something stuck in there? Dizziness nearly dropped him, but...
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Get You Some of That – Medical Treatment for Medical Illness
…Continued from yesterday. Cole Swindell – Get Me Some Of That Why do I feel so horrible when I start a treatment that is supposed to help? Medication treatments for depression and anxiety, and some...
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Besmirching God with My Crazy
I’m sitting here in a volunteer medical clinic for a 60K attendee camporee. It’s humid and hot and we are seeing a lot of dehydration, amongst other things. As a psychiatrist, I’m humming the...
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Medication vs Drugs
I imagine some day I’ll understand why users think drugs are healthier options for them then medications. “Doctor, I don’t think my wife will be comfortable with me adding another medication. It seems...
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God in the Space of Synthetics
Hello Friends! I’m going to try something a little different today. I’m posting a dictation between a patient of mine and me because I think it has flow and a nucleus. (There are a few small changes...
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