by Dr. Anita Sanz | May 11, 2023 | Well Being, Health
Mental Health Medication If you take psychotropic medications, meaning anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medications, mood stabilizers, or anti-psychotic medications, it’s not unusual that at one time or another during the course of your working with your psychiatrist,...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | May 11, 2023 | Well Being, Health
How do you get over an addiction to food? You’re Not Addicted to Food To be clear, you can’t have an addiction to food. Or if you do, you also have an addiction to air, too. Unlike alcohol, drugs, gambling, and a few other things people become addicted to,...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | May 2, 2023 | Well Being, Health
Would You Know What To Do? You get the phone call that your 79-year-old grandmother has just been admitted to the hospital and when you get there, you discover that she is confused and thinks she is at a hotel instead of a hospital, and is complaining about all the...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 25, 2023 | Well Being, Health
You and I both know you are not a human Bento box. Trying to “unpack” your health experience by neat packages of symptom categories is not what the average person has been trained to do. Your physician, on the other hand, has been trained to conceptualize...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 25, 2023 | Well Being, Health
Who Gets Sick? When Dr. Sheldon Cohen and his team at Carnegie Mellon University studied which participants became sick after having a cold or flu virus squirted in their noses and then isolating them in a hotel room (I know, you’re thinking, “How...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 19, 2023 | Well Being, Health
Elusive Sleep Insomnia for many people has become a frustrating fact of life. 30% of the population suffers from it, and more than half of Americans lose significant amounts of sleep due to stress and anxiety. If insomnia visits you more than once every few...
