I can no longer stay silent. I am fed up with people who bash the lifesaving program of Alcoholics Anonymous. Is it perfect? No. Does it have pros and cons? Yes, but so does breathing. When you have a fractured rib, it hurts, but hey, we have to keep breathing anyway....
It’s no secret that the cost of depression in America runs into the billions, but does it matter if a person’s depression is clinical or situational? I think it does. Doctors continue to medicate people and label them depressives when in fact the person is depressed...
There are numerous variables when we wonder why some people have an increased risk for mental health diagnoses and substance abuse, and others don’t. The one question that should be asked by doctors and other health professionals when they encounter someone who is...
Can we ever get a handle on the opiate crisis and other forms of addiction as long as the doctors continue to believe that treatment means medication? I hear one too many psychiatrists say things like, “They’ve never had treatment” when what they mean is: The patient...
A recent article in the Dayton Daily News was a reprint from the New York Times, and the article talked about how of the approximately 2 million people who are addicted to opioids that relatively few of them receive treatment. What stopped me in my tracks was how the...
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Bipolar are two of the most common diagnosis that I see in patients admitted to the psychiatric hospital where I work. Ten years ago, bipolar diagnoses were few and far between. How come all of a sudden everyone is bipolar? What’s...
