People come to me wanting to be medicated and thus treated for the conditions they have. This is the nature of my profession, at least as the public presently perceives it.
They expect it to be done immediately.
“I have got to know what medications you are on first.” Read more on Medicine In The Age of Information…
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“The whole world has ADHD.”
No, he was not a mental health practitioner speaking with us. He was a professional fund-raiser.
His sentiment, however, was one I had heard before, in other kinds of jargon. Read more on The Whole World Has ADHD …
Filed under Addictions, Diagnosis, Disease, Doctors, life, military, Substance Abuse by on Dec 23rd, 2017. Comment.
Two mentally challenged individuals had been having a bit of a spat with raised voices about which of one or another alien races had been exterminated in some futuristic interplanetary war. They had obviously been emotionally involved. It could have been truly ugly if they had let go and started beating each other.
There were a lot of things wrong with this picture. Read more on Alien Warfare — True Or False?…
I have been putting together a new project to help victims of human trafficking. During this effort I have made many new friends and gained some powerful allies.
One is a Christian evangelist named Meri Crouley who hosts a show on the satellite TV network The Cross TV. Her programs are archived on YouTube.
Meri wanted me to come on her program “Now Is The Time,” but we had so much to talk about that she has actually extended me to two episodes. The first one already aired last Thursday and is available at this website:
Now is the Time Meri Crouley 12-14-2017 – YouTube
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There is something wildly inappropriate about me being traumatized when shopping for nutritional supplements in a national chain pharmacy.
I have sustained Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (luckily far from the worst cases I have seen) from my auditory trauma. Read more on Pharmacies Practicing Medicine!…
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I only saw pea plants growing in a field one time I can recall in a field in Northern France. Read more on Bless Your Pea-Picking Heart!…
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“I just am not good enough to come up with a pill that works if you don’t take it.” Read more on Are You Taking Your Pills?…
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I’ve met a lot of people since I moved to California over 20 years ago, but one who has endured as a close and dear friend is Christelle Tachon.
I sat down for an intimate chat with her last month and fortunately had the cameras rolling. What we captured is funny, intimate and emotional — a testament to a pair of friends who care deeply for one another. Read more on Blog…
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Trump’s Just Say No Campaign
Patients often try to discuss politics with me and I always avoid it the best I can.
I don’t care what folks believe, for here in the U-S-of-A I will not stop believing that every one of us has the right to choose. I try to tell them I am about as apolitical a human as they are going to find.
Should they want to push me into a corner and find out if I am “left” or “right,” I try to convince them that I grew up in Boston and so am “fairly liberal,” or remind them I am a veteran of the United States Army Medical Corps, which is usually enough to make me pass for “conservative.” Read more on Reviving The Failed “Just Say No” Drug Campaign…
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Sexual harassment has been making the news lately. Dozens of powerful men in Hollywood (especially) and business and government are being accused of misconduct by vulnerable young women (and men in some cases).
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can result from any trauma. Car accidents, animal attacks, a bad fall — not just sexual assault or war.
A high-school student doing a report for school recently wrote to me asking about PTSD. I thought my answers might be of interest to others, so I’m sharing them with you. Read more on Student Questions About PTSD…
Filed under abuse, Alternative Medicine, depression, Diagnosis, Disease, Dissociative Disorder, Doctors, Mental Illness, News, Psychiatrists, PTSD, Research by on Nov 3rd, 2017. Comment.