Mental Health

How To Choose a Good Psychotherapist

By Deborah Serani, Psy.D. It is a difficult, yet brave and courageous moment when someone makes the decision to pursue mental health therapy. But more difficult than the decision to go to therapy is the decision of who to go to for therapy. So, how does someone find a good therapist? Types of Therapists First, [...]

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Why Smokers Do and Don’t Quit Smoking

My father-in-law is in his 70s and still smokes every day. He’s tried to quit before, but in the recent years has decided that he was old enough to live his life however he wanted, and that included smoking. Nevermind the fact that he has had a quadruple bypass operation for his clogged arteries (and [...]

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How Work-Life Imbalance Makes You Sick

Dr. Sheldon Cohen‘s keynote presentation at the 8th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine was published in International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (2005 Vol 12 No 3, 123-131). Cohen summarized 20 years of research on psychosocial influences on infection susceptibility. Cohen also debunks these pervasive myths of stress and disease: Myth: Infectious disease-causing agents is wholly [...]

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Truth is More Than Just One Side of the Story

This morning two newsfeeds came to my attention. One came from an open letter from Mental Health America, a non-profit organization. Mental Health America stated its agreement with the FDA not the extend the black box warning label of suicidal ideation risk across all age groups (not just children and teens) to antidepressants after recognizing [...]

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Suicide and SSRI When Medical Legal Risk is High

By Robert Lamberts, M.D. I had a tough situation in the office yesterday. One of my patients is a 17-year old who went to the ER on Sunday for shortness of breath. They said she had a panic attack and should follow-up with me as soon as possible. When I saw her, she was clearly [...]

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