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, you may experience a side effect or a drug interaction. This one makes you small, this one makes you tall… Like Alice in […]

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, you actually need food to survive. Which in many

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 rats that only she can see running across

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 and diagnose health issues based on gathering symptom information in a specific way. Why

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 can I get a spot in that study?!”), they found that the people who did NOT get sick had several things in

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 months, it’s time to take a look at the things you can do

There are over 100 million Americans who suffer from chronic pain.  If you have ever experienced severe pain that lasts over a week, you know the personal cost of chronic pain and the levels of desperation that pain can drive you to get rid of it. Pain As A Separate Condition Doctors and researchers have discovered, though, that

“You Look Fine To Me!” What is it like to live with an invisible illness? It’s different from living with something that everyone around you can plainly see. If you break your leg and you’ve got a cast on, that is at least a clue that you might be in some pain, that your life is probably very