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. 
A ray of hope. Martin Shkreli is the man who “jacked up” the price of a lifesaving pharmaceutical drug.
It appears to have been something he did just to make profits go up. Read more on Jacked Up Drug Pricing…
Filed under Government, medicine, News, prescription drugs by on Jul 11th, 2018. Comment.
It isn’t just her.
Men treat you different depending on how sexy you are. Read more on Being A Woman Involves Dealing With Men…
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.
Recently I convinced a patient to buy and use one of these:
She had to pay about 700 dollars cash for it.
I had her on a variety of antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, and she had survived untold numbers of similar drugs from the three or so psychiatrists she saw before me. She assured me none of them had been much help. Read more on The Fisher-Wallace Stimulator…
Filed under prescription drugs, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapy, Research by on Jun 21st, 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.
Those lovable psychologists do all kinds of research (without bodily fluids) and sometimes it is clever stuff. Practical stuff. Stuff you can apply, often nearly immediately, to make your life better.
James Clear often comes up with these.
I remember being told very early in life (age 9, in gifted children’s school) that a high IQ is NOT a guarantee of success. Read more on Intention Means More Than Motivation…
Filed under News, Psychology by on Jun 19th, 2018. Comment.
I felt especially blessed when my friends invited me to share in a performance of Bharata Natyam by their daughter and the other students of the Natyanjali School of classical Indian dance in Fullerton.
Dr. Sanjay Doshi and his wife, Darshana (a psychologist who works with me) asked me and my husband to join them in this wonderful celebration on Saturday night. With their son, Jay, we were front-row-center for the evening of dance at Fullerton College. Afterward, a buffet of traditional Indian dishes was provided.
Our hosts introduced us to their beautiful daughter, Juhi, who — at 15 years of age — as spent the past 9 years in study of the dance. Next year she will graduate and present a 3 ½ hour solo dance recital — and I don’t want to miss that!
The troupe is instructed by Dr. , who acted as emcee for the event and conducted the orchestra of world-class musicians imported from India.
The exotic and hypnotic music, the gorgeous costumes and the talented dancers made this such a wonderful evening that it was a shock to return to real life.
For more information on the dance classes here is the contact information:
email: info@natyanjali.org
website: www.natyanjali.org
Namaste!
Filed under Creativity by on Jun 17th, 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.