When faced with a mental health challenge, many people ask themselves: Should I take medication, or should I do therapy? As a psychiatric prescriber, I would return this question with…
For over fifty years, mainstream medicine relied heavily on the monoamine hypothesis of depression—the belief that mental health struggles stem simply from a chemical deficiency in neurotransmitters like serotonin, norepinephrine,…
OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Understanding the Cycle, Symptoms, and Effective Treatment (ERP) What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a mental disorder characterized by two core components: OCD is…
Major depressive disorder is a mood disorder in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental illnesses. It is among the most commonly seen psychiatric disorders. Mood underlies and influences our…
Anxiety disorders are well known the be the most commonly diagnosed mental health disorders. Anxiety itself, however, is not a disorder. Anxiety is a feeling or emotion meant to signal…
Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric disorder which can range from a challenging illness to a serious mental illness. It is characterized by bouts of both depression and mania or hypomania….
Addiction in recent years has come to be seen as a disease of the brain. A disease is essentially a progressive problem which can improve with treatment. Addiction progressively results…
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