Avoid serotonin syndrome with careful medication review by doctors and pharmacist. Last week we reviewed medication treatment of depression and anxiety. Medications impacting serotonin to help regulate mood were a focus. Did you know you could get too much serotonin? When we overdo it, there is a condition called serotonin syndrome that can [...]
Depression and anxiety medications should be started and later stopped in gradual steps. Sometimes you can start a medicine and it starts working right away. Sometimes it takes a while to work. Sometimes you can stop a medicine ‘cold turkey.’ Sometimes you can’t without risky side effects. Some require step up and step [...]
The Circle of Self can lead you into a dark self-absorbed place with pain, depression, and anxiety. I was teaching health profession students this week about mental health and pain. The Circle of Self was a good visual way to capture a current phenomenon. One of the very important things we talked about [...]
