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Holistic Psychiatrist

A Holistic Perspective on ADHD and How to Treat It

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My holistic understanding of ADHD is that this condition is a reflection of underlying stressors that change a patient’s attention from that of a scholar to that of a soldier. It’s not that the child is inattentive; it’s that the child’s attention is hypersensitized to everything.

When do withdrawals stop?

Ginkgo leaves at Rhinebeck train station

From my perspective, stopping one’s medications without a foundation of health to stand on is like putting the cart before the horse. It’s just not possible to go anywhere when you do that.

Believing in Your Dreams and Investing in Yourself

Checking out the publishing terrain!

Your dreams can reflect a basic part of who you are before you become that in the world. In other words, a blueprint for your future self. It is in our nature as creators to create ever-evolving states of being.

At the Airport: Signs of a Changing America

Letting love flow beyond its barriers

Let’s call out the culture of division and disenfranchisement gradually increasing around us. Ostracizing one group to create fake unity for another was, and continues to be, a failed social experiment.

Returning to Life-affirming Moments in Childhood

Not quite Damascus, but at least there're sheep

Our childhoods aren’t just bags of traumas that we fish around in, pull out an issue, and talk about in therapy. Rather, our childhood can tell us a great deal about our innocence and pure-heartedness, who we are deep inside, and how we wanted to evolve.

The Little Red Hen’s Lesson on Love

Woodsy Path County Kerry, Ireland

Though we may try to capture it through writing, music, or speech, love’s spiritual essence cannot be reduced to three or two-dimensional space. Love is not just a verb; it is a multi-actioned-verb.