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Is Letting Go Ever Withdrawing?

05/12/2025
My daughter and I just had a discussion about whether letting go is ever achieved...
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Adult Adhd…fact or Fiction?

05/12/2025
There has been controversy whether adults can have ADHD/ADD.  There is also some support for...
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New Suicide Data

05/12/2025
An article in the June, 2016 Clinical Psychiatry News by Howard S. Sudak, M.D. [Commentary...
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Just Some Trees or a Stand of Trees or a Community of Trees?

05/12/2025
I just finished listening to a TED talk by Suzanne Simard on "How trees talk...
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Suicide and Guns

05/12/2025
From the Harvard Public Health magazine of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health...
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“I Don’t Care and I Don’t Care That I Don’t Care.”

05/12/2025
Recently one of my patients came in and announced that "I don't care and I...
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Psychotic Symptoms and Traumatic Experiences

05/12/2025
There is research evidence [Kelleher et.al; American Journal of Psychiatry Vol 70: Issue 7: Pages....
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Your Brain is on Your Side or Thank Goodness Our Brain’s Are Organs That Maintain Patterns

05/12/2025
Many of us [all of us?] have experienced a time when we want to change...
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How Many Psychiatrists Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?

05/12/2025
I think that the joke ends with "just one, but the lightbulb really has to...
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Is Ignorance Bliss? Or Does Knowing That We Don’t Know Anything a Source of Bliss?

05/12/2025
So where does the saying "ignorance is bliss" come from? The internet tells me that...
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