All of a sudden, people have started showing up in the office with MRSA. It is freaking people out . . . completely. There have been calls for specialized cleaning services to come to the office and disinfect and decontaminate. Therapists are voicing hesitancy about seeing certain patients. There was even a recommendation by someone . . . → Read More: The Plague comes to visit . . . MRSA hysteria and the need to get back to work
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My apologies to Shakespeare. Whenever one of the antidepressants goes generic, there is a small percentage of people that have a return of symptoms of anxiety or depression that had previously been in good control. When the medicine gets switched back to the brand name only, the symptoms become under control again. This, of course, . . . → Read More: Zoloft . . .by any other name would . . .  One comment - (Comments are closed)  antidepressants, medication, medication side-effects  antidepressants, generic medicine, psychiatric medicine, sertraline, Zoloft When well meaning advocates for kids with mental health issues speak of “labeling” a kid . . . one of the “labels” that they talk about is Oppositional Defiant Disorder, aka ODD. This is an issue that goes way back to when the disorder was first characterized and diagnostic criteria were formalized. The criteria for . . . → Read More: Oppositional Defiant Disorder Comments are closed ADHD, anger/irritability, anxiety, depression, medication, relationships anger, Oppositional Defiant Disorder I am the parent of a ninth grader. I have had two others go through our local high school. I am hoping my youngest will make it through alive. I’m asking for your help. For my child, and the children of all the other kids in the school. And the teachers. And the custodians. And . . . → Read More: School Violence (Part I)–a plea to parents Comments are closed anger/irritability, relationships, school issues, therapy school violence, therapy Very. OK, I guess you want more than that for an explanation, right? This is an issue that comes up frequently. Since many of the medications that we use to treat other issues can potentially aggravate an underlying Bipolar Disorder, psychiatrists have been increasingly conservative in their prescribing and more aggressive in probing for latent . . . → Read More: Minimal Bipolarism–how cautious do you have to be? Comments are closed antidepressants, bipolar disorder, depression, medication, mood stabilizers, stimulants antidepressants, bipolar disorder, mood stabilizers I get numerous inquiries about how to stop antidepressants. I get the impression that most people want to stop on their own, and not in collaboration with their psychiatrist. As always, I recommend that you change medicine only after consultation with your doctor. If you don’t feel like your doctor will listen to you, then . . . → Read More: Tapering antidepressants . . . more art than science 4 comments - (Comments are closed) antidepressants, depression, medication, medication side-effects, withdrawal symptoms antidepressants, depression, medication, side effects OK gang . . . its October!!! You know what that means????? It time to . . . MEET THE TEACHERS!!!! I don’t mean that passing by at the end of “back to school night” thing where you ask “how’s Raoul doing?” What do you think the teacher is going to say “Oh my GOOOODDDDD, . . . → Read More: Time to meet with the teachers!!! Comments are closed ADHD, anger/irritability, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, relationships, school issues I put the following comments in back to back for a reason. Read on . . . K writes in to say . . . I find being on so many medications made everything worse- not all- but most. The side effects where at times unbearable. But when I was on so many…it made . . . → Read More: Doped Up On Too Many Medications??? Comments are closed antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, depression, medication, medication side-effects, mood stabilizers, therapy I was in the local supermarket on Saturday. There was this older lady who was taking care of me at the deli counter. This supermarket is my usual haunt. It is not unusual for me to be in there several times a week. I have seen her before in there taking care of me and . . . → Read More: Another life lesson by the deli-Lama I know I recently gave a rant and a rave about the inventive ways that pharmaceutical companies make an old drug “new” by making it sustained release or orally dissolvable, but I wanted to call a new medicine to your attention. Vyvanse is a recently approved medicine for ADHD. It is good old dexedrine (dextroamphetamine), . . . → Read More: Vyvanse–new way to deliver an old drug (this one is ok!!!) |
   
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