Modern society and the quick-fix culture pushes the idea of the magic pill to solve the problem of living a life. The assumption that a person needs to "get strong" or "stop being so emotional" when they are grieving can make a person who is otherwise good-natured into appearing like a callous, insensitive monster. "Take your pill" is a comment I have been told by patients that family has said to them. Perhaps its just that these people don't know how to help their close r

It has been a long-standing practice to stop taking anti-depressants while pregnant because of the risk for the developing fetus. The logic appears sound: you don't want to subject the placenta's filtering ability to more toxic chemicals than necessary. However, recent information has put that practice in question. A patient told me that she is allowed to take an anti-depressant during her pregnancy, based on information the physician received while attending a conference a

One problem that keeps coming up like Bugs Bunny emerging from a hole away from Albuquerque, feeling perplexed. It's the problem of depressive and anxiety symptoms being confused with a thinking problem when in actuality it is a problem with medications. Again, a preemptive statement on medications: they are important for many people who actually have a problem related to the reason the medication was FDA approved and that is supported by legitimate evidence. As with many o