My preceptor — the professor who was responsible for teaching me about psychopharmacology — continuously complained about “polypharmacy.”
I would roll my eyes heavenward and give him one of my usual “clever” retorts like,”Who the heck is she? Your cleaning lady, maybe??” Read more on What We Do With Antidepressants…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, depression, Diagnosis, Disease, Education, News, prescription drugs, Psychotherapy, Research by on Jul 20th, 2018. Comment. 
The population gets older. I think everyone from Washington D.C. to Hollywood has noted the change in the demographic.
Did anyone notice, however, that an older population means more illness and senescence? More illness and senescence means more caretakers. Read more on More Aging, More Caretakers…
Filed under Aging, Alternative Medicine, Doctors, Family, life, News by on Jul 12th, 2018. Comment.
I am sometimes amazed at my patients. They amaze me when I ask about their therapists. I ask about what their therapists are doing for them. Very surprised, they often tell me things like “I’ve been seeing my therapist for years,” and “She is kind of like a friend I talk to every week.”
If you are a “therapy patient,” you (or your insurance) is paying an alleged therapist to make you better. Well, often patients tell me they are doing or have been doing “nothing, really” and this I believe. Read more on How To Tell If Your Therapist Knows What They Are Doing…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, News, Psychiatrists by on Jun 27th, 2018. Comment.
My husband and I occasionally pick up hard copies of publications, as we did of this one.
My hard copy is marked on the front page as No. 15 Mid March, 2018.
Pages 12 and 13 of this newspaper are marked as “HEALTH” in the upper right-hand corner. Read more on Why It Is Important To Look Who’s Talking…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, News, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Research by on Jun 20th, 2018. Comment.
“GABA” stands for “Gamma Amino Butyric Acid,” a neurotransmitter long known for its relaxing, anticonvulsant (meaning “anti-seizure”) activity. We have certainly found ways to increase its presence with drugs that operate on, well, “lateral pathways” to increase its presence quantitatively. Unfortunately, these usually involve addictive substances, like benzodiazepines, which are pretty heavily addictive for most folks.
I am really glad those loveable Brits at U. Cambridge are saying they help “repress” unwanted thoughts. This is to me, a direct validation of Freudian Thought. We “repress” thoughts, and this seems to be linked to the way we do so. Read more on The Function Of GABA…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, medicine, Mental Illness, News, Research by on Jun 13th, 2018. Comment.
You probably haven’t heard of low-dose naltrexone, but it could help you.
You may not even have heard of regular naltrexone. Read more on Low-Dose Gives A Big Boost…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Doctors, life, medicine, News by on Jun 12th, 2018. Comment.
Here it is — I strongly recommend downloading the video.
It must be true, because it is presented by Robin Roberts, apparently anchorhuman of ABC’s Good Morning America.
Whether it is a prosthetic hand for a little girl or someday a human heart made of human heart type cells that beat, this application of 3d printing is to me the most dramatic use of computer technology on humans yet. Read more on 3D Printing Is Changing Medicine…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, medicine, News by on Jun 5th, 2018. Comment.
There is another Estelle Goldstein on Linked-In who is listed as an Independent Health, Wellness and Fitness Professional in the Greater Philadelphia Area. This is NOT me! If you have sent a Linked-In request to this person (probably from searching for my name) please send to my current Linked-In address:
CURRENT — ORANGE COUNTY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle-toby-goldstein-6b469059/
There is also a legitimate — but old and outdated — profile on Linked-In at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle-toby-goldstein-6a8580b/
If you want to be on my current network, please send a new request to the current profile listed above.
Sorry for any confusion.
Filed under Alternative Medicine, News by on May 26th, 2018. Comment.
I often think of Emma Bovary.
In 1856, Gustave Flaubert’s first novel was helped along in sales by a trial for obscenity. And yet the school of thought Flaubert embodied was called “literary realism.” Read more on Literature and Psychology…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Brain, Diagnosis, Disease, medicine, News, Psychology by on May 17th, 2018. Comment.
I was not over 12 when my parents invited me to perform on the banjo which I played rather minimally for a family of synagogue friends.
I went straight to my best song, at that time “Where Have all the Flowers Gone,” by Peter, Paul and Mary. Read more on How Long Does This Continue?…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, depression, Diagnosis, Disease, Doctors, Education, life, Mental Illness, News by on May 13th, 2018. Comment.