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 [...]
Let go of control and let go of anxiety, depression, and pain I’ve mentioned before, the three types of medications prescribed most commonly in the United States treat anxiety, depression, and pain. I propose CONTROL is in the midst of this frequent prescribing. What happy, exciting things do you anticipate for 2017? What [...]
